Hi all, Maybe you know this already, but I just wanted to drop hop into this conversation and mention that, while the two solutions suggested by Michael and Shane will work well for at least writing a solo piece, you may start to experience some issues as you typeset multiple parts, e.g. time signatures and clefs behaving erratically at the beginning of a measure, or in the case of Shane’s solution, the main beats not aligning vertically. The former case has been brought up quite a few times in this mailing list in the past (I was one of them, without knowing its history as I am also relatively new to LilyPond). See, for example:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-11/msg00288.html So using Michael’s \startGliss function and MWE, consider this not so MWE: \score { \new StaffGroup << \new Staff \relative c' { \clef bass \startGliss b, f'8 r8 r4 \startGliss b, f'8 r8 r4 \time 3/4 \startGliss b, f'8 r8 r4 r4 } \new Staff \relative c, { \clef bass % \grace s4 %{ COMMENT/UNCOMMENT THIS LINE %} f4 r4 f4 r4 \time 3/4 % \grace s4 %{ COMMENT/UNCOMMENT THIS LINE %} f4 r4 r4 } >> } Shane’s solution, while the main beat may be displaced because of \(un)hideNotes, caught my attention for multiplying the main note with a fraction because it could be useful to typeset a passage where composer insists that the start of the grace note(s) need to be aligned to the main beat (though it would not be a common practice): << { \teeny \tweak Stem.length #6 b8*1/2 ( \normalsize d'4*3/4 ) } \\ { g4 } >> r4 r4 r4 Just to put this out there to avoid headaches down the road! Yoshi -- -- -- Yoshiaki Onishi https://github.com/yoshiakionishi/lilypond-snippets
