Nikolai Hedler <[email protected]> writes:

> I cannot accept that putting a breath mark on the downbeat should ever be
> the expected output, especially when that only occurs due to a grace note
> in another staff (which, from what I understood, doesn't shorten the
> preceding note but the following one anyways).

Grace notes in LilyPond generally shorten the preceding note.  That
makes them arguably not the right tool for an appoggiatura (which
shortens the _following_ note at least by its nominal value).  We don't
have a different tool at the moment, though.

> It's nonsensical to me that this should be considered intended
> behavior. It's simply non-musical to assume that a breath mark is
> meant to go after the bar line unless otherwise specified by the
> engraver.

The problem with fixing perceived bugs is that one has to be very
careful not to introduce actual bugs that one can then not get rid of.

-- 
David Kastrup


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