On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 03:15:53PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote: [...] > > A score that starts with an \grace section needs an explicit \context > > Voice declaration, otherwise the main note and grace note end up on > > different staves. > > > >But it would be nice if the manual had an example.
> It does! The point you probably missed is that the \grace s16 should be > inserted > in all the other staves, so that all staves begin with a grace note of > some form > (\grace or \acciaccatura or \appoggiatura). Aha, now it makes sense. And there was no need for me to define a new Voice context - adding this to the beginning of both the melody and upper staves worked: % extra grace note to work around LilyPond bug with the initial % grace note in the lower staff \grace s16 Many thanks! -- Ed > A complete version of the example from the manual, > including the fix, is > > << \new Staff { e4 \bar "|:" \grace c16 d4 } > \new Staff { c4 \bar "|:" \grace s16 d4 } >> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user