Re: Square bracket version of \left-brace markup

2018-04-21 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2018-04-21 04:49, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: But looking into the code and seeing how these brackets are being constructed, there is a ly:bracket command that can be used for creating a bracket stencil quite easily . . . I should definitely set aside some time to dive in and get more

Re: Square bracket version of \left-brace markup

2018-04-21 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2018-04-21 04:49, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: But looking into the code and seeing how these brackets are being constructed, there is a ly:bracket command that can be used for creating a bracket stencil quite easily . . . I should definitely set aside some time to dive in and get more

Re: Square bracket version of \left-brace markup

2018-04-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 21.04.2018 um 13:49 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle: Braces are very special animals because they can't just be scaled up and down (at least that would look terrible). That's the only reason why there even is a special encoding ("FetaBrace") and a special lookup command. There are lots and lots of

Re: Square bracket version of \left-brace markup

2018-04-21 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
Aaron Hill wrote > However, I would prefer to use a square bracket instead of the > curly brace. It seems like I will have to manually "draw" the bracket > using markup functions and/or custom PostScript. Hi Aaron, Braces are very special animals because they can't just be scaled up and down

Re: Square bracket version of \left-brace markup

2018-04-20 Thread Karlin High
On 4/18/2018 6:30 PM, Aaron Hill wrote: However, I would prefer to use a square bracket instead of the curly brace.  It seems like I will have to manually "draw" the bracket using markup functions and/or custom PostScript. Has anyone here attempted something like this and can offer advice?

Square bracket version of \left-brace markup

2018-04-18 Thread Aaron Hill
I am currently using \left-brace as a means for grouping multiple lyric lines: \version "2.19.80" lyricBracket = \markup { \hspace #1 \translate #'(0 . 0.75) \left-brace #40 } \relative c' { c4 d e2 | g8 f e4 c2 } \addlyrics { \repeat unfold 3 \skip 1 Mul -- ti -- ple lines }