Grace notes are a special case of small and tiny notes: the difference is that they are always coded as eighth notes with an oblique bar over the flag. To perform this, special variants of normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\cu and normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\cl have been provided, namely normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\grcu and normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\grcl, with the only difference that the flag has been slashed. Using this together with the note reduction macro, grace notes (optionally chord grace notes) can be easily coded:
The previous example was coded as:
\NOtes\qsk\hu h\enotes \temps\smallnotesize \notes\grcu j\enotes \temps\normalnotesize \NOtes\hu i\enotes \barre\tinynotesize \notes\qsk\zq h\grcl j\enotes \normalnotesize \NOTEs\wh i\enotes