Re: edition-engraver mod on first note

[Damian leGassick]

sorry, meant to say ‘this works’

> On 9 Nov 2020, at 14:30, Damian leGassick <damianlegassick@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Martin, I’ll try this
> 
> Damian
> 
>> On 9 Nov 2020, at 14:04, Martin Neubauer <mrtnnbr@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Damian,
>> 
>> During the summer I spent some time diving into the edition engraver
>> myself and also noticed that some classes of mods didn't work on the
>> first downbeat while others did. (I don't remember exactly which ones
>> were problematic, but I can look it up later.) My workaround was to
>> insert '\grace s8' at the beginning. (The actual duration shouldn't
>> matter, but too long ones might add noticeable empty space.)
>> 
>> Hope that helps somewhat,
>> Martin
>> 
>>>> On 06/11/2020 17:40, damianlegassick wrote:
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I can't persuade edition-engraver to add an \editionMod starting on the
>>> downbeat of the first bar. I can't even do it with the example.ly from
>>> the repo (is that why there's an R1 at the top?).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> any clues for a workaround or am I being dumb?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Damian
>>