For the section that talks about building a score from scratch:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/learning/building-a-score-from-scratch
The author chose to construct a Piano Staff + single staff score. That
results in three staves, with the top two "connected" by a brace and the
bottom stave 'unbraced' (as it were).
I'm taking as my guide the free scores by Johann Sebastian Bach at the
International Music Score Library Project. What's nice about these IMSLP
editions is that they are almost all pdf photocopies of old editions,
e.g., http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/01337 of the great
Bach Passacaglia in C minor, by Breitkopf & Härtel, 1867. Plate B.W. XV.
The brace shown for the above mentioned edition of the Passacaglia in C
Minor centers on the middle stave and extends upwards and downwards
toward the outer staves. The current analog in Lilypond for this
'centered on middle stave' positioning is to use not a
PianoStaff+OneStaff but a GrandStaff for the three staves. Doing this
does at least engrave a brace that covers all three staves centered on
the middle stave though it does not engrave a stave like that shown in
the Breitkoph and Haertel score. The B&H score uses what appears to be a
brace sized for a two-staff score. The Lilypond output is larger
extending across all three staves.
Is it possible to modify the brace from a GrandStaff or the positioning
of the brace for the PianoStaff version so that it is more like the B&H
engraving? I know the example from the LP documentation is acceptable
(the Peter's Edition of the Bach is engraved in this manner) but I,
personally, like how B&H do it -- I like that lovely brace.
Regards.
--
"There is only love, and then oblivion. Love is all we have
to set against hatred." (paraphrased) Ian McEwan
Guy Stalnaker
jimmyg...@gmail.com
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