Hello again,
I've tried fooling around with the various properties of
SystemStartBrace, and I can't seem to find a way to make all braces the same
width, regardless of the height of the brace. (The problem is really
exaggerated when there are three staves in a PianoStaff-- the brace looks
comically huge.)
Do there happen to be any scheme wizards who can suggest a possible workaround?
And if a workaround is not possible, should I add this to the bug tracker?
(Unless it's already listed and I missed it.)
-Jonathan
--- On Tue, 9/8/09, Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Relative thickness of PianoStaff Braces
> To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
> Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 11:15 PM
> Hello,
> I'm having trouble tweaking the
> Brace at the beginning of a system.
> My test code is below; basically, I'd like to make the
> brace oonnecting
> three staves less thick.
>
> That brings me to my second question. I've attached
> two pngs, one of
> Lilypond braces and the other from a Durand score of
> Debussy's 1st
> Prelude, Bk. II, available here:
>
> http://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/d/dd/IMSLP00510-Debussy_-_Preludes__Book_2.pdf
>
> Both Durand braces are of course much thicker, but the
> point is that they
> have comparable weights (not sure what to call it).
>
> Lilypond's large brace basically looks like the smaller
> brace has been
> enlarged by about 170%, which looks a lot less
> elegant. Shouldn't the
> brace be stretched vertically without changing the
> thickness?
>
> -Jonathan
>
> example code:
>
> \version "2.12.2"
>
> \score {
> \new PianoStaff
> % \override
> PianoStaff.SystemStartBrace #'thickness = #0.2
> <<
> \new Staff = "rh" {
> << { c' d' e' f' }
> \new Staff \with {
> alignAboveContext = "rh" } { c' d' e' f' }
> >>
> \break
> c' d' e' f'
> }
> \new Staff {
> c' d' e' f'
> c' d' e' f'
> }
> >>
> }
>
> \paper {
> indent = 0
> }
>
> %\layout {
> % \context { \PianoStaff
> % \override
> SystemStartBrace #'thickness = #0.2
> % }
> %}
>
>
>
>
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