On Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM David Zelinsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm transcribing a part and want to copy the line breaks for easy
> comparison. In order to be able to turn them off easily I'm putting the
> line breaks in a separate voice with spacers.  This works fine, except
> that when there are grace notes attached to a note at the start of a
> measure, and that measure is after a line break, the grace notes appear
> at the end of the preceding line.   When I put the \break in the voice
> with the grace notes, this does not happen.
>
> Why does this happen,


It's one of the oldest bugs in the system, number 34 I think.

and how can I fix it?
>

You're doing what needs to be done, AFAICT.


> I found a workaround by putting a spacer grace note in the voice with
> the breaks.  But this is very fussy.  Is there a better way?
>
> Or, is there a better way overall to do what I'm trying to do?
>

It's what I do too (although I use a Devnull voice) but others may have new
insights.



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Knute Snortum

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