Making grace notes take up no space

[Trevor Bača]

Hi,

Is there a way to keep grace notes from "pushing" open space around them?

In this snippet ...

%%% BEGIN %%%

\version "2.9.11"

\new Score \with {
  %\override SpacingSpanner #'strict-note-spacing = ##t
} <<
  \new Staff {
     c'4
     \grace {
        c'16[ c'16 c'16 c'16]
     }
     c'4 c'4 c'4
  }
  \new Staff {
     c'8 c'8 c'8 c'8 c'8 c'8 c'8 c'8
  }
> >

%%% END %%%

... we see a *lot* of space after the second 8th note in the lower
staff. (Attached.)

If we set strict-note-spacing to true in the SpacingSpanner, then
grace notes take up no space, just like I'm wanting ... but,
unfortunately, I don't want to use strict-note-spacing in this case
for other reasons (having to do with there being a bunch of time
signatures that I *do* want to take up space ... which is at odds with
strict-note-spacing).

So is there a way to get grace notes to take up no space (without
setting strict-note-spacing to true)?

In general, is there a way to tell any arbitrary grob (like time
signatures or barlines or whatever) to take up no space without
setting strict-note-spacing to true?



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Trevor Bača
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