Re: Figured bass brackets (bug?)

[Robin Bannister]

Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote:

> Could anyone help me finish this BWV246 project?

Well, I don't know anything about figured bass 
but it seems that Lilypond's square brackets are 
not intended to be spread apart. 

add_brackets is called eventwise, and at each call 
initialises its local variable "inside" to false. 
And I didn't find a regtest demonstrating your spreading. 


But if you want to hack your way to the finish 
have a look at half-bfb. 

This assumes that the square brackets fill the stencil-extents 
and makes its own (single) bracket to fit these, 
honoring a few things like thickness and padding. 
But because no continuation mechanism is involved 
you have to check that the [ and ] are set at the same height. 

Maybe you could adapt this for a different bracket style?


Cheers, 
Robin

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