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