Re: Temporary staff too long when grace notes are in the permanent staff

[Knute Snortum]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 4:05 PM David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> I see absolutely nothing that would suggest that LilyPond doesn't
> exactly engrave what you are asking for here.  No bug, no ugly.
>
> > Is there any work-around?
>
> Not a workaround but correct input: you want to stop the staff 3 eighths
> of grace notes before the next beat, so your ossia needs to stop _then_:
>
>
> Now that \stopStaff is placed at the time where you actually want to
> have the staff end, that's exactly where the staff _does_ end.
>
> And what you see now in terms of stems deserves the title "bug, or at
> least ugly".
>
> But at least the staff length is what you want, and you tell LilyPond
> properly about it.  So you get to complain about the real bug instead...

Thanks for this explanation.  I tried something similar to what you
suggested and ran into the same problem you did.  It's already an
issue:

https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6307

--
Knute Snortum