--- On Sat, 9/26/09, Mats Bengtsson <mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se> wrote:
> From: Mats Bengtsson <mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se> > Subject: Re: Relative thickness of PianoStaff Braces > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancs...@yahoo.com> > Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009, 9:47 PM > 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. Oh, I see. Since I couldn't find a glyph for the brace in the NR, I just assumed it was some kind of "vertical spanner." Thanks for the response. -Jonathan > > /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 > >> % } > >> %} > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lilypond-user mailing list > > lilypond-user@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > > > -- ============================================= > Mats Bengtsson > Signal Processing > School of Electrical Engineering > Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) > SE-100 44 STOCKHOLM > Sweden > Phone: (+46) 8 790 > 8463 > > Fax: (+46) > 8 790 7260 > Email: mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se > WWW: http://www.s3.kth.se/~mabe > ============================================= > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
