The braces are typeset using symbols from a special font, so you cannot
adjust the width and height separately. As far as I can see from the
Metafont code generating these font symbols, the relationship between
width and height is fixed, which may not be the best choice as you have
pointed out.
/Mats
Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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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