Re: brackets around notes

[David Raleigh Arnold]

> An alternative commonly used convention is to put a square bracket over
> such notes -- like a volta bracket but thinner.

Neat idea. Why thinner? Volta brackets are often *very* thin.

This could also be a zero tuplet bracket, if it had the zero. There is a
sort of elegance to using similar ways of indicating that notes played
at different times were written on the same beat, so to speak, and that
a group of notes unwritable vertically should be played on the same
beat. :-)
 
> What I'd like to be able to do is to have both these and also a way to
> put parentheses around arbitrary notes accidentals and scripts to show
> editorial emendations.

I hasten to agree that brackets are more versatile than those tiny
accidentals over notes that are found in books. This isn't for a
performing edition is it?

A left bracket is commonly used in German guitar publications (and not
by me) to indicate barring. The brackets would thus be more useful if
these particular left and right brackets and/or parentheses were
independent symbols rather than necessarily in pairs.

daveA