Re: Grace notes, chords and slurs.

[Mats Bengtsson]

> Firstly, I want to ask how I can typeset chord that spans two piano
> stafs, two (for example) notes on left hand, two on right hand staff.
> When I try to do such thing I got full chord on one of the staves.

I don't think that's specifically supported at the moment, even
though you could make the stems overlap to get the same effect.

> Secondly, when I try to use slur after grace notes like this:
> 
> \grace {[c16 d e f]} <c2 e g ( > <h d ) g>
> 
> outputs looks like I'm enter 
> 
> \grace {[c16 ( d e f]} < ) c2 e g> <h d g>.
> 
> Is this some kind of lilypond bug?

Yes, this is one of the major bugs in the 1.4.x version that has
been solved in 1.5.x. Unfortunately, the 1.5 versions have had a
number of other bugs instead, but the latest versions seem fairly
functional.

   /Mats