Re: Slashed grace notes

[Paul Hodges]

On 14/09/2021 20:17:08, "Thomas Morley" <thomasmorley65@gmail.com> 
wrote:
>
>Why not use \slash as defined by the LSR-snippet directly?
>Makes for:
>
>{
>   \afterGrace b1 { \slash 40 1 0.5 c'16 d' } e'1
>}

Probably because I am not yet sufficiently familiar with the use and 
interaction of the different programming levels of LilyPond.  It's not a 
matter of being unable to understand (I started programming in 1967, and 
it was my career from 1970 to 2004, when I moved into systems and 
network management) - it's just that LilyPond is a complex system, 
logically designed, to be sure, but in each layer there are an 
incredible number of options to become familiar with, and to be frank, 
at my age taking everything in and memorising it is slower and less 
certain than it used to be.

Your example is indeed simple; I shall use it to understand how it is 
working at the depth I need to.  I am never satisfied to do things by 
rote - I need to understand how and why before I accept an answer.

Thanks,
Paul