Re: Relative thickness of PianoStaff Braces

[Mats Bengtsson]

The braces are typeset using symbols from a special font, so you cannot 
adjust the width and height separately. As far as I can see from the 
Metafont code generating these font symbols, the relationship between 
width and height is fixed, which may not be the best choice as you have 
pointed out.

    /Mats

Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> Hello again,
>      I've tried fooling around with the various properties of 
> SystemStartBrace, and I can't seem to find a way to make all braces the same width, regardless of the height of the brace.  (The problem is really exaggerated when there are three staves in a PianoStaff-- the brace looks comically huge.)
>
> Do there happen to be any scheme wizards who can suggest a possible workaround? 
>  And if a workaround is not possible, should I add this to the bug tracker? 
> (Unless it's already listed and I missed it.)
>
> -Jonathan
>
> --- On Tue, 9/8/09, Jonathan Wilkes <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>   
> > From: Jonathan Wilkes <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Relative thickness of PianoStaff Braces
> > To: address@hidden
> > Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 11:15 PM
> > Hello,
> >      I'm having trouble tweaking the
> > Brace at the beginning of a system. 
> > My test code is below; basically, I'd like to make the
> > brace oonnecting 
> > three staves less thick.
> >
> > That brings me to my second question.  I've attached
> > two pngs, one of 
> > Lilypond braces and the other from a Durand score of
> > Debussy's 1st 
> > Prelude, Bk. II, available here:
> >
> > http://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/d/dd/IMSLP00510-Debussy_-_Preludes__Book_2.pdf
> >
> > Both Durand braces are of course much thicker, but the
> > point is that they 
> > have comparable weights (not sure what to call it).
> >
> > Lilypond's large brace basically looks like the smaller
> > brace has been 
> > enlarged by about 170%, which looks a lot less
> > elegant.  Shouldn't the 
> > brace be stretched vertically without changing the
> > thickness?
> >
> > -Jonathan
> >
> > example code:
> >
> > \version "2.12.2"
> >
> > \score {
> >     \new PianoStaff 
> > %      \override
> > PianoStaff.SystemStartBrace #'thickness = #0.2
> >       <<
> >       \new Staff = "rh" {
> >       <<  { c' d' e' f' }
> >         \new Staff \with {
> > alignAboveContext = "rh" } { c' d' e' f' }
> >       >>
> >       \break
> >       c' d' e' f'
> >       }
> >       \new Staff {
> >       c' d' e' f'
> >       c' d' e' f'
> >       }
> >     >>
> > }
> >
> > \paper {
> >     indent = 0
> > }
> >
> > %\layout {
> > %    \context { \PianoStaff
> > %        \override
> > SystemStartBrace #'thickness = #0.2
> > %    }
> > %}
> >
> >
> >
> >       
> >     
>
>
>       
>
>
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