Re: proportional grace notes

[Trevor Bača]

On 6/22/06, V!ctor address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to have grace notes spaced proportionally to their
> durations, like this:
> http://music.columbia.edu/~vadan/lilypond/proportional_gracenotesB.pdf
>
> I thought that using proportionalNotationDuration would do it, but it
> only affects the "real" notes. Here's what I get:
> http://music.columbia.edu/~vadan/lilypond/proportional_gracenotes.pdf
> with the following code:
>
> %
> *********************************************************************************
> \version "2.9.7"
> \include "english.ly"
>
> \layout{
>         \context{ \Score
>                 % proportional notation ------------------
>                 proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 32)
>                 \override SpacingSpanner #'strict-note-spacing = ##t
>                 \override SpacingSpanner #'uniform-stretching = ##t
>         }
> }
>
> % THIS ...
> \new Voice{\afterGrace c''2. { c''32 c''8 c''32 c''16} c''4 c''2 c''2}
> % OR ...
> \new Voice{ c''2. \grace{ c''32 c''8 c''32 c''16} c''4 c''2 c''2}
> %
> *********************************************************************************
>
> >From looking at 6.5.7 in the manual (2.9), I can see it should be
> possible, maybe somehow changing the 'grace note timing', but I can't
> figure out how.
> How could I do this? Is there an easier way?

Hi Victor,

I know grace notes have all sorts of interesting properties in
LilyPond, but I haven't played around with them yet myself.

Would it be possible to put the grace notes in their own voice and
simply shrink the #'size attributes of the notes, stems, flags, etc,
in that separate grace voice?

That way the notes would *space* exactly like normal notes and you
could manually reduce the graphic *size* of the notes.

Would that work?


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Trevor Bača
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