Hi Damian, During the summer I spent some time diving into the edition engraver myself and also noticed that some classes of mods didn't work on the first downbeat while others did. (I don't remember exactly which ones were problematic, but I can look it up later.) My workaround was to insert '\grace s8' at the beginning. (The actual duration shouldn't matter, but too long ones might add noticeable empty space.)
Hope that helps somewhat, Martin On 06/11/2020 17:40, damianlegassick wrote: > Hi > > > I can't persuade edition-engraver to add an \editionMod starting on the > downbeat of the first bar. I can't even do it with the example.ly from > the repo (is that why there's an R1 at the top?). > > > any clues for a workaround or am I being dumb? > > > Damian
