Re: piano notation element

[Antanas Budriūnas]

Francisco,

2009/2/8 Francisco Vila <address@hidden>:
> 2009/2/7 Antanas Budriūnas <address@hidden>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> in piano scores when a particular note (chord) in the upper staff
>> should be played with the left hand, a bracket of inverted "L" shape
>> is placed before that note.
>> I believe it is either in LP documentation or in Snippets, but
>> unfortunately I can't find it.
>> Could you point me please...
>
> Possibly something like
>
> LH = \markup { \postscript #"0.2 setlinewidth 0 0 moveto -1 0 lineto 0
> -5 rlineto stroke" }
>
> {  e''^\LH }
>
> A good design would have taken into account the pitch instead of
> having a fixed height, but I could be a starting point anyway.

Nice starting point!
Of course it should take accidentals, flags, etc. into account too.
By the way this sort of bracket isn't rare in romantic polyphonic
music like Scriabine (which I like very much:).

Thankyou!

Antanas Budriūnas