I see you are struggling with how shapes scale uniformly, and
simultaneously, horizontally and vertically - but, you want one that
selectively scales vertically but only the line's length, not their width,
and the circles not at all. I am not much of a shape maker, but I can
imagine the programming for this is non-trivial.
I think you might be better off to make some of these in various lengths
that you like, group them and save them. They will cut an paste easily.
If you group the circles with a little black or white period, then you can
move them casually and they won't change size and shape on you. But just
picking carefully achieves the same thing.
You can of course just change point size for the font for a bracket, but
the aspect ratio stays the same rather than stretching the lines.
Sorry, I don't have an answer for you. Maybe someone else knows more
tricks.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:
> I want some big brackets (as in very tall { and } characters), can
> anyone suggest a way to draw them easily? It's basically a long line
> with a collection of quarter circles attached so I guess I could do it
> that way but it feels a bit clumsy.
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