On Wed, 2017-02-22 at 14:28 +0100, Alexander Kobel wrote: > Andrew, > > On 2017-02-22 14:02, Andrew Bernard wrote: [...] > > > Can this be done? I can see how you can use stopStaff and startStaff > > to get close, but there does not appear to be an obvious way to get > > system start delimiters and braces drawn if you do that. > > I once tried to duplicate the SystemStartDelimiter stencil from the > beginning of the line, to insert it at the place where \startStaff is > called. It would not be the most convenient approach (in particular, > you'd typically want to have some vertically centered text in the > gap), but at least a start. And the missing delimiter is the main > technical hindrance AFAICS. > Alas, I did not succeed; but I suspect that someone with a better > Scheme- and Lily-internals-fu could make this work...
I wonder if you could get LilyPond to draw the brace after the break in the staff by defining a custom barline and putting that there? It would not work for nested braces, but I think most applications are just a single brace. Richard _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
