Re: Setting the width of system-starter curly braces

[David Kastrup]

David Nalesnik <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Ádám,
>
>     > Unfortunately the curly brace created for these four instruments
>     is way too wide. Is there a way to shrink the vertical size of the
>     curly brace for the GrandStaff (so that it would have the same
>     width as the curly brace of a GrandStaff consisting of only two
>     instruments)?
>
>
> Another solution would be to scale the brace like so:
>
> \override GrandStaff.SystemStartBrace #'stencil = #(lambda (grob)
>      (ly:stencil-scale (ly:system-start-delimiter::print grob) 0.75
> 1))
>
> Here the brace is scaled horizontally to 0.75.

Scalings that change the aspect ratio significantly tend do cause
inconsistent widths of curves.  So they are more or less a last resort
if there is no other way to ask for the respective glyphs with a
different aspect ratio.

-- 
David Kastrup