On Wednesday, July 22, 2026, Owen Le Blanc <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear friends,
> I haven't got a short example of this, because the source is complex
> with multiple voices.  But the text producitng the caesuras is simple
> enough.  The voice for the right hand has:
>
>      r8 d( e f fis b) \caesura | \acciaccatura b16 g4. r8 r4 |
>
> And the voice for the left hand has:
>
>      < a c >2) r4\caesura | s2. |
>
> The other voice for the left hand has
>
>      d4 d' r | g,8( d' b' d ~ < d e g b >4) |
>
> and I have tried adding the \caesura to the corresponding rest here.,
> but the result is the same: the right had caesura appears (as I would
> expect) before the bar line, while the left-hand one appears after the
> bar line.  Is there any way to force the left-hand caesura to appear
> before the bar line?
>

Hello,

That's the (in)famous bug #34.
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/work_items/34

Add \grace s16 after the \caesura in the left hand.

Kind regards,
Xavier

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