Re: Grace note spacing and barcheck difficulty in bagpipe music

[Ben Beeson]

Hi David,

Thanks for pointing me to the issue 34 link. I did not know about that
before.  After reading all that material late last night, I am realizing
that the fix is going to be a tough one.  I guess I was hoping that I
just missed something simple.  Who knew that I was about to walk into a
minefield? Wow... 

I will see what I can do with the \grace { s8 } idea you suggested.  So
far that idea is not playing nicely with the bagpipe.ly file.  

Thanks again,

Ben 
       

On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 09:54 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: 
> Ben Beeson <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been struggling with how to get harmonies to align with the main
> > line of a tune when inputting "seconds" for bagpipe music.  The goal is
> > to get the main tune on one staff with the seconds on a separate staff.
> > I also want the seconds aligned with the main tune in the other staff.
> > Most of the time this works the way it should in that you enter the
> > music and all is well. The problem occurs when one part of the tune
> > starts with a different length of grace note embellishment from the
> > other part.
> 
> Then don't do this.  Pad all starting graces with spacer rests (like s8)
> to have the same length, if necessary, adding just \grace { s8. }.  It
> is a problem documented in the manual, and is one of the earliest
> standing issues in the bug tracker, the infamous issue 34
> <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=34>.
>