Re: Height of start bar brace

[Nathan Ho]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Noeck <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

can I change the height of a start bar brace, like in

\version "2.19.16"
\new PianoStaff <<
  \new Staff { R1 }
  \new Staff { R1 }
>>

I would like to reduce the vertical size a little bit.

For some reason this solution doesn't automatically center the bracket perfectly, but it's a start.

\version "2.19.16"

\new PianoStaff \with {

  \override SystemStartBrace.stencil =

    #(lambda (grob)

       (let* ((scale-amount 0.9)

              (stil (ly:system-start-delimiter::print grob))

              (scaled-stil (ly:stencil-scale stil scale-amount scale-amount))

              (extent (ly:stencil-extent stil Y))

              (height (- (cdr extent) (car extent))))

         (ly:stencil-translate-axis

           scaled-stil

           (+

             (* -0.5 (- 1 scale-amount) height)

             -0.3) ; adjust this to nudge it

           Y)))

} <<

  \new Staff { R1 }

  \new Staff { R1 }

>> 

Regards,

Nathan