Hi Xavier, thanks for your help! I had found the documentation of analysis brackets but ligatures seem to be what I am looking for. Unless musicxml2ly converts the wrong symbol. See http://www.kainhofer.net/musicxml/ 31a-Directions.xml measure 10
Cheers patrick P.S.: the commands \[ and \] are not part of the indices! Am 12.01.2012 um 13:35 schrieb Xavier Scheuer: > On 12 January 2012 12:51, pls <p.l.schm...@gmx.de> wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> today I tripped over a command for typesetting horizontal brackets >> (\[ \]) which doesn't seem to be covered in the manuals. >> (At least I didn't find it.) > > Ligatures are covered in the notation reference manual, in the "Ancient > notation" section: NR 2.9.2 Ancient notation—common features > Ligatures > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/ancient-notation_002d_002dcommon-features.html#ligatures > >> How can I invert and change the vertical alignment of these horizontal >> brackets? (I'd like to place them below the staff.) > > \override LigatureBracket #'direction = #DOWN > > Ligatures should not be confused with "Analysis brackets", which is > maybe what you are actually looking for. They are explained in > NR 1.7.2 Editorial annotations Outside the staff > Analysis brackets > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/outside-the-staff.html#analysis-brackets > > Cheers, > Xavier > > -- > Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user