Manual positioning of grace notes

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Post by OCTO » Mon Jan 11, 2021 6:23 pm

Hello.
I have an issue that I can't solve. In a piece I have numerous grace notes, and somehow they are not well positioned. I try to edit them by note mover tools but every time I respace, they come back to the original position.
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Post by motet » Mon Jan 11, 2021 6:26 pm

There is a global setting for the position of grace notes, if that helps.

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Post by RMK » Mon Jan 11, 2021 7:06 pm

Are you sure "automatic spacing" is turned off?

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Post by Peter Thomsen » Mon Jan 11, 2021 7:17 pm

Another way:

Enter the grace notes as normal notes (using hidden tuplets), and resize the notes to grace note size.

Rather than positioning grace notes you may find it easier to fine-tune the positioning of normal notes.
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Post by zuill » Mon Jan 11, 2021 7:25 pm

In Document Options/Spacing, I believe Keep Current for Grace Notes will retain the manual placement of Grace Notes. Possibly that needs to be combined with the option to Incorporate Manual Positioning.

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Post by OCTO » Tue Jan 12, 2021 10:20 pm

No, actually, nothing helps. It seems to be so for all grace notes. Rewriting in a normal notation than resizing is to awkward, too many notes.
Any manual position is undo-ed by execution of the note spacing. This is not the same with normal notes, they remain at the place.
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