Re: Parentheses

[Jim Long]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 04:32:47PM +0200, Urs Liska wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> can you tell me what the \parenthesize function uses to print the 
> parentheses?
> There are paren glyphs in the accidentals section, are they used for 
> that purpose?
> And does this mean that I can only resize parentheses proportionally (by 
> using a different font size)? Or is there a possibility 'stretch' them 
> when the surrounded object is taller?
> 
> Thanks for any input
> Urs

+1

I recently used \parenthesize to put parens around a chord
markup, and found that the parens were significantly smaller than
the markup.  Perhaps \parenthesize could takes its size
information from its parent grob, if that's the right term?