Re: Introduction Bracket glyphs

Breanne,

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Breanne Szilagyi [via Lilypond] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Good Evening,

I am arranging a hymn for organ and need to indicate the recommended measures to use for an introduction. I am looking for square brackets: the first bracket is the top and left sides of a square and the second bracket is the top and right sides. And I want to place them above the system.

Ex. https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/jesus-once-of-humble-birth?lang=eng
In the example, the introduction brackets enclose a few measures at the beginning of the song and then jump to the last few measures of the song.

I've searched through the Notation documentation sections that seem appropriate, and tried to do keyword searches but introduction, square, and bracket are all overloaded terms and I couldn't find a suitable substitute. Thank you for helping a lilypond newbie. (I'm using v2.18.2 but can switch to a higher version if needed.)

Thank you,
Breanne Szilagyi

As you can see from the other responses, there are a good handful of ways to do this. I've re-engraved quite a few of these hymns and used these:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

introStart = \markup {
\raise #1
\path #0.1 #'((moveto -1 0)(rlineto 0 1)(rlineto 1 0))
}

% Accompaniment introduction end mark
introEnd = \markup {
\raise #1
\path #0.1 #'((moveto 1.5 1)(rlineto 1 0)(rlineto 0 -1))
}

% A mark that starts a little farther out (to the right)
introEndLong = \markup {
\raise #1
\path #0.1 #'((moveto 4 1)(rlineto 1 0)(rlineto 0 -1))
}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

You just attach them to the note/chord you want, like (from "The Spirit of God"):

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\relative c' {
\key bes \major
\partial 4 <d f>4^\introStart |
<d bes'>2 <f c'>4 <f c'> |
<f d'>2 <es c'>4 <d bes'> |
\doubleSlur <g bes>2 ( <f a>4 ) <es g> |
\doubleSlur <d f>4. ( <es g>8 )^\introEnd <d f>4 \bar "" \break
}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

HTH,

Abraham

P.S. Here's another command that I felt was helpful with engraving these hymns (since I used it in the above example):

doubleSlur = { \once \set doubleSlurs = ##t }

From:	tisimst
Subject:	Re: Introduction Bracket glyphs
Date:	Sun, 19 Jun 2016 05:14:15 -0700 (MST)