Re: Grace note displayed exactly on beat (and not before)

[Keith OHara]

Siska Ádám <sales <at> sadam.hu> writes:

>  I was
> wondering how I would be able to put the grace note just on the beat.
> 

It is easiest to use normal notes and tell LilyPond that the durations
shorter than normal, say 1/4 the written length, with c'16*1/4 and
that the following note gets only a fraction of its full time.

<< 
 \new Staff \new Voice{ 
    \new Voice {\teeny \override Flag  #'stroke-style = #"grace"
       \override Stem  #'no-stem-extend = ##t
        \override Stem  #'length-fraction = #0.7
    c'16*1/4\noBeam d' }
    g'1*31/32 
  }
  \new Staff {b1} >>

The difficult thing was finding the \overrides to give the smaller
the style of grace notes. I copied the more-important ones from
a LilyPond startup file 'music-functions.scm'

I could not quickly figure out how to apply all the 'graceSettings
to the normal voice, but there is probably a way to do so and maybe
we should make a short command \graceSettings for that.

This same method is useful when we want to let grace notes overlap
earlier notes in another voice.