Re: Going back in MIDI time error: disappeared?

[Trevor Daniels]

Federico, you wrote Sunday, January 06, 2013 3:28 PM
Subject: Going back in MIDI time error: disappeared?


> NR 1.2.6, Grace notes, section Known problems:
> 
> """
> Each grace note in MIDI output has a length of 1/4 of its actual 
> duration. If the combined length of the grace notes is greater than the 
> length of the preceding note a “Going back in MIDI time” error will be 
> generated. Either make the grace notes shorter in duration, for example:
> 
> \acciaccatura { c'8[ d' e' f' g'] }
> becomes:
> 
> \acciaccatura { c'16[ d' e' f' g'] }
> """
> 
> I'm trying to reproduce such an error, just to check if I've understood 
> it correctly, but I can't.
> The combined length of grace notes, in first example, is 5/8. So if I 
> put a shorter note before the grace expression I should produce an error?
> 
> \version "2.17.10"
> 
> {
>   c'16
>   \acciaccatura { c'8[ d' e' f' g'] }
> }
> 
> It's not working.
> I think I'm totally missing the point.

Did you include a \midi {} to cause MIDI output to be generated?

Trevor