Re: font size override and grace notes

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Though there is something to be said for only ever having to enter the
text for Latin mass once.  I doubt, however, that one can express all
details of melismata and word repetition in the note part only.

-- 
David Kastrup