Re: font size override and grace notes

[David Kastrup]

Matt Cary <address@hidden> writes:

>> 
>> > I'm still not clear why this is happening in the first place. Why
>> > should the revert affect an override that occurs in the following
>> > expression?
>> 
>> It is not "following".  Grace notes go back in time.
>> 
>
> Ah, thank you. I didn't know that. I see why it's a tricky situation. I guess 
> that means my current workaround isn't so bad after all:
>
> g8 \strumE d,8 \strumE |
> % Something weird with the strum to the grace note.
> \once \override NoteHead #'font-size = #-2 \slashedGrace a'16( b8)

Ugh.  At any rate, for this kind of situation using a separate voice
seems preferable.  You can, if I remember correctly, change the
associated voice in the middle of Lyrics.  This kind of thing is why I
actually prefer to just manually specify the note durations in lyrics
rather than using \lyricsto.  Hardly more work and quite more robust
with regard to juggling around with voices and context.

-- 
David Kastrup