If I understand grace notes correctly, they do not take any time from the base notes. The first alternative therefore has only 7 - 8ths of the 4/4 tempo .... or the baseline before the alternative is a 7/8 partial measure and the alternative starts 1/8 into the second bar (or some other 'partial' measure variant).
While this may not reflect the original music, try adding a "s8" immediately before the end of the first alternative (in both voices), comment out or remove the \property Score.defaultBarType and the \bar "|" statements, and ponder the result. Another possibility is the \grace note in the first alternative is a base note, not a grace. Also note that, if my understanding of grace notes is correct, the \grace {s8} that appear, especially in voice2 are totally unnecessary, and even distracting. As an aside, I find that trying to override Lilypond with anything other than positioning or style (eg: 4/4 vs 'C') is frequently useless - it adds to the maintenance, causes me no end of puttering, and Lily generally comes very close to the 'right' thing anyway. So the first thing I do after conversion is strip out everything except the notes, add bar checks, and look at the result to start making 'engraving' decisions. (To that end, I wish the converters had a 'notes only' option!) /Hans Laura Conrad wrote: > >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Presumably something (probably the grace note) has lily > >> confused about where the measure starts. > > Jan> Yes, you have me confused too. It looks like instead of setting > Jan> barType to empty, and adding bar-line glyphs at other places, > > This is how abc2ly works. I don't think having it parse every measure > for whether it's partial is a good idea. > > Jan> you'd better add a (some?) \partial commands; to tell lily > Jan> how much beats there are left in the measure. > > The measures are all 4/4 bars. There's nothing really wierd about > this. The grace notes must be what's confusing. > > So it looks like the workaround for the grace note bug includes a \partial as > well as (or instead of?) the \grace{s8}, when the grace note is in the > middle of a measure. It doesn't seem to be necessary when the grace > note is at the start of a measure for some reason > > Attached is the fixed file. I still think not having a bar line (or > some syntax that allows specification of a barline) at the start of > the first alternate is a bug. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > test.lyName: test.ly > Type: LY File (application/x-unknown-content-type-ly_auto_file) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) > (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 > 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Lilypond-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user