Re: Grace notes before the beat ?

[Mats Bengtsson]

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I would like to know if there is a simple way to ask lilypond to put
> grace notes *before* the beat and not onto it ?

Certainly, try

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\header {
    tagline = "";
}
\include "italiano.ly"
graceright = \property Grace.graceAlignPosition = \right

\score {
\notes
\relative do'
{
    \time 6/8;
    \grace {\graceright [si16 do]} do2.-\trill 
    re2.
    \bar "|.";
}
}

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The answer to your question could be found in /input/test/grace.ly
or in the automatically generated part of the user manual
(From www.lilypond.org, click on "User Manual", 
"Internals: Auto generated ..." and then "Context Grace")

   /Mats