Re: Grace notes and ties in multiple voices and staves

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

On 2012-12-22 19:25, Alex Voice wrote:
> I have been setting myself various tasks to see if I can use LilyPond to
> its utmost, but some bars of Godowsky (an arrangement of Chopin for
> piano left hand)
> are stretching me too far for now, even though I am certain that
> LilyPond can cope with them in some way.

Wow, that's really quite a piece to typeset! I find it particularly hard 
to determine how many voices to use...

> I've put a PDF of this section of the printed music on Dropbox
> (http://db.tt/TJmlsnCO) too and if anyone is able to explain how I might
> exactly reproduce the start of bar 3 (with all its grace notes and ties
> – aaargh) I should be very interested and very grateful! Someone will
> make it look really easy, I'm sure!

See the attached lilypond code, which should reproduce this.

Are the first three sixteenth notes of that grace note meant to be a 
triplet? If so, all the grace commands need to be changed accordingly.

> I've had a modicum of success in tweaking the positions of various
> fingerings, though even here replicating the precise positioning of
> fingerings in bar 1 (particularly in the fourth semiquaver beat) has
> proved elusive for the moment.

It seems like positioning fingerings (and preventing collisions for 
them) is not really one of the strength of lilypond...

I tried to fix some of the fingering positions, but not all of them. You 
should get an idea how to do it, though.

Cheers,
Reinhold

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