Re: Grace notes in a chord

[Erik Sandberg]

On Friday 26 August 2005 11.13, Darius Blasband wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a 2.2 score, recently migrated to 2.6.3, where I have something
> fairly common, such as:
>
> \grace{a8[ b c d e f]} a4
>
> which looked good, and which is printed as if the input was defined as a
> chord <a b c d e f a> and the resulting
> music is closer to a mix between Frank Zappa and Stockhausen than my
> original intention.
>
> The trouble is, I've been trying to reproduce the problem on a short
> snippet, and I have failed consistently.
> The only thing I have is the complete document, and the resulting PDF....

I usually solve that by starting at the full score, and remove one part from 
it at a time. (first, remove other staffs, then remove the last bars, then 
remove the first bars, etc). Re-typeset between each removal, and always 
remember the last thing you removed. It usually ends up in some kind of 
binary search, and pretty soon you'll find a single operation that toggles 
the buggy behaviour on/off.

> Any idea anyone ?

When you can't reduce the problem more, you could post it to this list, or if 
it's too copyrighted for that, send it to me privately.

(if it's too copyrighted, you can always experiment with changing pitches & 
durations, the bug will usually persist)

-- 
Erik