Re: Making grace notes take up no space

[Trevor Bača]

On 7/15/06, Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, Trevor:
>
> > 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?
>
> Recently, I've fallen hard for
>
>         \once \override MyGrob #'X-extent = #'(0 . 0)

Hi Kieren,

I stumbled across X-extent leafing through possible solutions in the
program reference, but just couldn't get it to do what I was
expecting. Here was one attempt ...

%%% BEGIN %%%

\version "2.9.11"

\new Score <<
  \new Staff {
     c'4
     \override NoteHead #'X-extent = #'(0 . 0)
     \override Stem #'X-extent = #'(0 . 0)
     \override Beam #'X-extent = #'(0 . 0)
     \grace {
        c'16[ c'16 c'16 c'16]
     }
     \revert NoteHead #'X-extent
     \revert Stem #'X-extent
     \revert Beam #'X-extent
     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 %%%

... which seems to have no effect, even though everything's syntactically right.

I'm missing something obvious? Do you have a fun snippet or two I
could look at to get the ball rolling?

(And, thank you!)


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Trevor Bača
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