Re: can a Scheme engraver "solve" Issue #34 (grace note bug)? [cross-posted]

[Thomas Morley]

Am Fr., 7. Feb. 2020 um 14:46 Uhr schrieb Kieren MacMillan
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> Hi all,
>
> Here’s the brainstorm I’ve currently got going:
>
> Issue #34, a.k.a. the grace note bug, is one of Lilypond’s longest-standing 
> and most newbie-unfriendly issues. It doesn’t appear in single-staff scores, 
> obviously — only in multi-staff scores where one staff has a grace note [in 
> the note code] and one or more other staves don’t.
>
> So…
>
> Can Someone™ write a Scheme engraver that listens for grace events and 
> automagically adds grace skips of equal duration at the same moment in all 
> other staves of a given score? *Intuitively*, \consist-ing that engraver into 
> a score sounds to me like the perfect (Band-Aid™?) solution, modulo what is 
> apparently a very difficult and/or time-consuming recoding of some deep 
> fundamentals in Lilypond’s timing codebase.
>
> Let me know if I’m just talking nonsense.
> If not, let me know how I can help make this "fix" a reality.
>
> Thanks,
> Kieren.
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> Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his)
> ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info
> ‣ email: address@hidden
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>

Hi Kieren,

although I did not try, I can't imagine an engraver could work.

Though, maybe checkout the link given here
https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/34/?page=1&limit=25#2eca

Cheers,
  Harm