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Fixed Lilypond output of multi-note embellishments

I have always wanted to use Lilypond for the notational engraving on this project. Over half the book has been entered into Lilypond, but there has always been a slightly annoying issue. Grips, Taorluaths and D Throws just haven't looked right. The spacing of the stems within the gracenotes were never even. I'd finally had enough this week.  I emailed the Lilypond usergroup and asked if there was a solution to this that I was missing.  A few people chimed in that they also found it annoying but had not been able to fix it.  I was beginning to give up that it might be too deep into the code to do anything about, when an email from Thorsten gave me some hope. \stemspace #'(0 . 0.4)  grip  = { \pgrace { G32[ \stemspace #'(0 . 0.4) d G] } } Thorsten suggested I could do this in the bagpipe.ly definitions file that is included at the beginning of each tune I'm setting. I edited bagpipe.ly then recompiled my tune, and bam, problem solved. Now I'm ju...