Kieren MacMillan <[email protected]> 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. -- David Kastrup My replies have a tendency to cause friction. To help mitigating damage, feel free to forward problematic posts to me adding a subject like "timeout 1d" (for a suggested timeout of 1 day) or "offensive".
