Re: [feature request]: set grace note duration for MIDI playback

[James Lowe]

On 12/06/15 11:11, Gilberto wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, but I believe you are talking about
> something different than I meant. This property in articulate.ly
> simply changes the proportion of which note should have its value
> stolen by the grace notes. In old music, for instance, you tend to
> play graces before the beat, while more contemporary scores
> normally ask them to be on the beat (this rule of thumb vary
> greatly for both cases and you will find counterexamples
> everywhere). That said, my request was to be able to control the
> total duration of a grace. So for instance, if I want to have in
> the score \grace{c'16}, its duration will always be that of a c'64
> regardless of which note it's stealing time from. My current 
> workaround is to use \grace \scaleDurations 2/1 {c'16}, which will
> sound as a c'32 (twice the expected value). It just would be nicer
> to be able to set this for the whole score and avoid the verbosity
> of using scaleDurations for every grace note.
> 
> Thanks again and take care, Gilberto

I have created

https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4450

for this enhancement request

James