On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 11:43 AM, Ole Buck wrote:
It must be a feature since grace note is always notated as close to the beat as possible. So there are no special note spacing in grace notes groups and no need to get around it.
I'm not sure if "feature" is the right word, but it's certainly the natural result of how grace notes are figured. When notes in different staves (or layers) align it's because each is aligned to the beat, not because they are actually aligned to each other. Grace notes aren't attached to any beat other than the one of the subsequent big note, so there's nothing for them to align to. All they can do is space themselves backward from the big note.
It's not just ledger lines. If you've got simultaneous graces in two layers and one set of graces has an accidental and the other doesn't, they're going to get off sync. For that matter if the big note has an accidental on one they're going to be off-sync. Ditto for a suspended note head on a chord. And, of course, lyrics, if you've got music spacing set to avoid lyric collisions.
Sure, it would be nifty if Finale was smart enough to look for grace notes on other staves so as to line them all up, but you can see it's not a simple matter. You'd also need clear parameters on when you want to align and when you don't. Suppose you're doing a full score and the piccolo and the cello each have a grace note before the downbeat -- but in the piccolo part, the following big note has an accidental. Do you really want the cello's grace note to be pushed way to the left as if it had an accidental there, too? Maybe you would, but it's not an obvious call.
mdl
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