Re: Beginning a piece with tuplets with a grace note or appoggiatura

[Erik Sandberg]

Citerar Trent Johnston <address@hidden>:

> Hello again,
> 
> I'm currently typesetting a trio sonata by Locatelli...
> 
> In one movement the the two flutes are in 12/8 time while the Continuo part
> is in Common time.
> 
> This is ok I thought I can set the flute parts in tuplets and fake 12/8
> time-signature at the beginning... since essentially this is what the
> composer is doing setting the time signature as 12/8 so the players wouldn't
> be overwhelmed with triplets everywhere.
> 
> But there is a problem with beginning the first note of the system with
> either a grace note or appoggiatura. I get the first bar with the grace or
> appogiatura but then there seems to be a restart of the systems and the
> resest of the music continues.
> 
> I get the same problem if change the notes to triplet groups as well i.e.
> \times 2/3 {       } etc.
> 
> Platform: Windows XP
> Lilypond Version: 2.7.10
> 
> Is this a bug? or Is there something I need to do?

It's a known bug. It will work if you insert dummy grace notes into the
beginning of each part, i.e.
\grace s8

The problem is that the beginning of part 2 and 3 are done at time 0, while the
beginning of part 1 is done 'just before' time 0 due to the grace note; by
inserting dummy grace notes they will all start 'just before' 0.

Erik