Re: Newbie event question

[Jacques Menu]

Thanks David. Are after grace notes simply handled with positive grace time?

Jm

> Le 20 oct. 2018 à 00:35, David Kastrup <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Jacques Menu <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Hello folks,
>> 
>> IIUC, at some point in its work, LilyPond represents the music as a
>> sequene of events, each with a position in time and a duration.
>> 
>> How are the grace notes handled in that context? They are actually
>> displayed and played, but their duration is not taken into account in
>> the duration of measures.
> 
> Times are represented as a sum of main time and grace time.  Grace notes
> have a main time duration of zero and a grace time duration of their
> length.  The last grace note in a group ends at a grace time of zero
> (and the respective main time), so grace notes always start at a
> _negative_ grace time before the respective main note (which has a grace
> time of zero at both its start and end).
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup