Thank your for the helpful replies. I didn't realize that these parentheses were objects of such high status to warrant their own interface - I now see I should have looked in the index first and found
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/internals/parenthesesitem Your syntax is too modern for the version 2.16, but interpolating with the reply from Harm I get \version "2.16" { \override ParenthesesItem #'font-size = #0 \override ParenthesesItem #'padding = #0.05 f'?4 \parenthesize f'4 } which works just fine. Thank you both for the responses, Richard Shann On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 10:12 -0700, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: > Some suggestion of how to tweak the parentheses: > > \version "2.16" > > { > % controls the size of the parenthesis, default value = around -6 > \override Score.ParenthesesItem.font-size = 0 > > % controls the sepparation between the parentheses, default value = 0 > \override Score.ParenthesesItem.padding = 0.05 > > f'?4 \parenthesize f'4 > } > > Regards, > Gilberto > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/parenthesize-command-looks-puny-compared-with-reminder-accidental-tp153097p153099.html > Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
