Re: brackets for coloration

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "harm" == harm6  <address@hidden> writes:

    harm> Laura Conrad wrote:
    >> 
    >> So it looks similar to an ligature bracket, but doesn't have the line
    >> between the begin and the end.

    harm> do you mean something like this?

Maybe something like that.  That particular something doesn't print any
bracket-like object at all for me, with lilypond 2.15.8 on ubuntu 10.10.
It does print error messages:

GNU LilyPond 2.15.8
Processing `testbracket.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music... 
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
programming error: invalid UTF-8 string
continuing, cross fingers

(process:21001): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to 
pango_layout_set_text()
programming error: FT_Get_Glyph_Name () error: invalid argument
continuing, cross fingers
programming error: Glyph has no name, but font supports glyph naming.
Skipping glyph U+FFFFFFFF, file 
/home/newlily/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/CenturySchL-Ital.otf
continuing, cross fingers
programming error: invalid UTF-8 string
continuing, cross fingers

(process:21001): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to 
pango_layout_set_text()
programming error: FT_Get_Glyph_Name () error: invalid argument
continuing, cross fingers
programming error: Glyph has no name, but font supports glyph naming.
Skipping glyph U+FFFFFFFF, file 
/home/newlily/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/CenturySchL-Ital.otf
continuing, cross fingers
Layout output to `testbracket.ps'...
Converting to `./testbracket.pdf'...
success: Compilation successfully completed

So if it prints little bracket beginning and endings for you, maybe your
fonts are different from mine?
 
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