Re: Problems with acciaccatura in cue voice

[Richard Shann]

On Thu, 2016-11-24 at 17:37 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2016-11-24 at 15:02 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> >> Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
> >> 
> >> >  \relative c' {
> >> >      \acciaccatura s8 r4 bf bf 
> >> >  }
> >> 
> >> That's a bad idea since it will produce a slur (I think).
> >
> > Oh yes! it does, I was trying this by hand (in Frescobaldi). Denemo
> > automatically inserts \grace {\skip 8} which looks horribly heavy handed
> > but I hope is technically correct at least.
> 
> Depends on where it is placed.  s8 will start an implicit Bottom
> context, \skip 8 really just passes time.  Cf:
> 
> << { \acciaccatura a'8 g'1 \bar "|." }
>    { \grace s8 c'1 }
> >>
> 
> << { \acciaccatura a'8 g'1 \bar "|." }
>    { \grace {\skip 8} c'1 }
> >>

Thanks for this - that's very illuminating. I think you would have to be
inserting code by hand to get that effect in Denemo as the staff and
voice contexts are explicitly generated by default.

Richard