Re: grace note issue/bug

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

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> From: "lily-user" <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 4:19 PM
> Subject: Re: grace note issue/bug
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>>
>> Thanks Phil. That fixed it. However, isn't this something that
>> should be done
>> automatically? It becomes a hassle for huge scores e.g., with more that 10
>> staves. Isn't it hard to add that to each staff and keep track of it in a
>> huge score? Do I have to synchronize it even in the middle of a score?
>
>
> It's one of the longest standing and least tractable bugs on LilyPond:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=34

I don't agree about it being intractable.  The main point is that
Context Specced music needs to be iterated _before_ anything else at a
given _main_ point of time (i.e., disregarding the grace timing) since
it might produce material going backwards in grace time in a different
context.

That's basically all there is to it as far as I understand.  Now this
might be a naive misunderstanding about the problem's scope, but if it
is, it might make more sense to change the code to match the naive
understanding than the other way round.

-- 
David Kastrup