grace note as first note of score

[Stephen]

HI,

I know I read somewhere in the documentation on how to solve this problem, 
but the documentation is too large for me to search and I cannot find it. 
The problem is caused because a grace note anticipates the beat. When it is 
the first note in the first measure, lilypond tries to place the note before 
the first measure.

The solution I came up with is to place an invisible partial measure at the 
beginning of the piece. This hides the metronome indication, places the rest 
too far to the right, and the gracenote too far from the note it "graces".

Bye the way, an appoggiatura doesn't anticipate the beat. One of the pleas I 
have to the programmers is to distinguish the appogiatura from the gracenote 
in midi.

Stephen

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