Re: Caesura position

Michael Werner <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:40:12 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-07-22 01:30, Owen Le Blanc wrote:
> Dear friends,
> I haven't got a short example of this, because the source is complex
> with multiple voices.  But the text producitng the caesuras is simple
> enough.  The voice for the right hand has:
>
>       r8 d( e f fis b) \caesura | \acciaccatura b16 g4. r8 r4 |
>
> And the voice for the left hand has:
>
>       < a c >2) r4\caesura | s2. |
>
> The other voice for the left hand has
>
>       d4 d' r | g,8( d' b' d ~ < d e g b >4) |
>
> and I have tried adding the \caesura to the corresponding rest here.,
> but the result is the same: the right had caesura appears (as I would
> expect) before the bar line, while the left-hand one appears after the
> bar line.  Is there any way to force the left-hand caesura to appear
> before the bar line?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>       Yours,
>       -- Owen

Looks like this may well be related to the infamous bug #34, dealing 
with grace notes. If I add a \acciaccatura s16 to the first left hand 
voice (just before the s2. ) the caesura pops over to where it belongs.

-- 
Michael