RE: that acciaccatura issue

[Mark Stephen Mrotek]

David,

Thank you for your continued effort to instruct me in this matter.

I am amazed/surprised/confounded on the amount of time and effort that has
been expended on a justification of the "minimal" requirement what could
have been spent on just viewing (via Frescobaldi not a PDF) the "errors" in
my code. (Wow that was a run on!).

You rightfully note that "an experienced user, namely Thomas Morely" was
needed to comply to with the "minimal" requirement. How then can/should I be
castigated for my inability?

The generosity on the list members has benefited me many times in the past.
I am grateful. Yet nothing in my positing is a demand on that generosity.
May I suggest that if my, or any other beginners, snippet is not minimal
enough for any reader, that the reader just close out the e-mail? Or a group
of competent coders could take it upon themselves to attend to the
particular needs of the beginner.

Again, unequivocally, I appreciate the support provided by all members of
the list. 

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: David Kastrup [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 12:17 PM
To: Mark Stephen Mrotek <address@hidden>
Cc: 'Thomas Morley' <address@hidden>; 'lilypond-user'
<address@hidden>
Subject: Re: that acciaccatura issue

"Mark Stephen Mrotek" <address@hidden> writes:

> David,
>
> And it would have been "visible" if the file I attached had been 
> viewed rather than dismissed as not being "minimal." Reminds me Aesop 
> fable of the Fox and the Grapes.

I don't understand what you are trying to say here.  The symptoms of the
grace synchronization problem are the same as that of putting isolated
staff-creating elements into <<...>> so viewing the resulting PDF file would
not have made the actual problem visible.

And due to the non-minimality of the examples, ruling out the acciaccature
as the cause of the problem did require an experienced user, namely Thomas
Morley, to reduce the example to a minimal one in order to figure out the
root cause and exclude the acciaccature as contributing to the problem.

Yes, in hindsight it would have been possible to spot the problem even in
the unabridged file since it clearly was present in there.
Unfortunately, hindsight is not available before arriving at the correct
conclusion.

--
David Kastrup