Re: postscript parentheses

[Trevor Daniels]

Carl Sorensen wrote Friday, January 30, 2009 4:35 AM
> Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmillan <at> sympatico.ca> writes:
>
> > Is anyone PS-savvy enough to tell me how to draw scalable
> > (independently in X and Y) parentheses using \postscript?
>
> There is a bezier-sandwich stencil that is used for slurs and for barre
> indicators in fret diagrams.
>
> The documentation on it is not particularly good, but there's a 
> half-decent
> explanation of the order of the control points needed for the
> bezier-sandwich in scm/fret-diagrams.scm.

There's also a little about the control points of
single Bézier curves in the Notation Reference -
section 5.5.4 Modifying shapes.  Might help if you've
not looked at Bézier curves before.

Trevor