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Re: can a Scheme engraver "solve" Issue #34 (grace note bug)? [cross-pos
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David Kastrup |
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Re: can a Scheme engraver "solve" Issue #34 (grace note bug)? [cross-posted] |
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Sun, 09 Feb 2020 12:41:48 +0100 |
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Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi David (et al.),
>
>> I don't think grace notes are usually synchronized optically.
>
> According to our recent "live-from-London" keynote speaker… ;)
>
> … you are correct — in fact, in one example, she shows how grace
> groups [of different "sizes"] on two different staves can be
> compressed [to the right] to be closer to the principal note/beat,
> thus "ruining" any optical synchronization between the staves.
Frankly, my own take on what that means would not have been to abolish
grace time: it's still useful for identifying things. But rather to
reduce NoteColumn/MusicalColumn sharing/alignment during grace time to
being just per-Staff, or possibly as option per-Voice. That would
allow, for special cases, to still blow it up back to being per Score.
One thing I find irritating about grace time is what it does graphically
and in midi to an appoggiatura. Those are usually supposed to come
on-time, have at _least_ the nominal duration and steal time from the
_next_ rather than the previous note.
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