User talk:FloraC
Creating new EDO pages
Hi FloraC, I wanted to let you know that I was just filling in some gaps in EDO pages temporarily, I plan to expand the pages at some point in the future. MisterShafXen (talk) 15:10, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
- I'm not sure of the benefits of filling in the gaps. There are infinitely many gaps. My advice is to only create a page when you have stuff to expand. FloraC (talk) 15:46, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
En dashes vs. em dashes
Hi, can you point out on which article I replaced en dashes with em dashes where they were interchangeable? Was it on 3L 4s? Because if that's the page you were referring to, on that page I replaced some hyphen-minuses with minus signs, not en dashes with em dashes. Note that minus signs and em/en dashes can be hard to distinguish from each other in the source editor. [math]\displaystyle{ \overrightarrow{\,\,\scriptsize\text{ArrowHead294}\,\,\,} }[/math] (speak to me) 15:59, 25 February 2025 (UTC)
What exactly are the reasons for keeping "Pythagorean" but not allowing names for higher-limit trivial temps?
I personally find defining trivial temps useful as the families defined by them determine what temperaments "flatten" larger subgroups down to the trivial temperament's subgroup.
- First of all, the name of the trivial temps in all limits is JI.
- Pythagorean tuning is kept becuz it has history and becuz Pythagoras was known to haved worked with the 3-limit. Also, Pythagorean tuning isn't called pythagorean temperament. The latter should generally be avoided cuz it can be confused with compton, the temp that tempers out the Pythagorean comma. Another example is Alpharabian tuning, which was lately added cuz al-Farabi was known to have worked with undecimal intervals.
- Now, given Alpharabian tuning has been added, it would seem okay to add something like Classical tuning. After all, Classical music tempers 5-limit intervals, which give rise to the name classical intervals, so it's related. However, "Classical tuning" has a big problem: it can be used to contrast meantone, the temperament that tempers classical intervals and that is actually used by Classical music. Iow which of JI and meantone is more Classical? It's meantone. Therefore, Classical tuning isn't a proper alias for JI.