Re: Relative thickness of PianoStaff Braces

[Jonathan Wilkes]

Hello again,
     I've tried fooling around with the various properties of 
SystemStartBrace, and I can't seem to find a way to make all braces the same 
width, regardless of the height of the brace.  (The problem is really 
exaggerated when there are three staves in a PianoStaff-- the brace looks 
comically huge.)

Do there happen to be any scheme wizards who can suggest a possible workaround? 
 And if a workaround is not possible, should I add this to the bug tracker? 
(Unless it's already listed and I missed it.)

-Jonathan

--- On Tue, 9/8/09, Jonathan Wilkes <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Jonathan Wilkes <address@hidden>
> Subject: Relative thickness of PianoStaff Braces
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 11:15 PM
> Hello,
>      I'm having trouble tweaking the
> Brace at the beginning of a system. 
> My test code is below; basically, I'd like to make the
> brace oonnecting 
> three staves less thick.
> 
> That brings me to my second question.  I've attached
> two pngs, one of 
> Lilypond braces and the other from a Durand score of
> Debussy's 1st 
> Prelude, Bk. II, available here:
> 
> http://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/d/dd/IMSLP00510-Debussy_-_Preludes__Book_2.pdf
> 
> Both Durand braces are of course much thicker, but the
> point is that they 
> have comparable weights (not sure what to call it).
> 
> Lilypond's large brace basically looks like the smaller
> brace has been 
> enlarged by about 170%, which looks a lot less
> elegant.  Shouldn't the 
> brace be stretched vertically without changing the
> thickness?
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
> example code:
> 
> \version "2.12.2"
> 
> \score {
>     \new PianoStaff 
> %      \override
> PianoStaff.SystemStartBrace #'thickness = #0.2
>       <<
>       \new Staff = "rh" {
>       <<  { c' d' e' f' }
>         \new Staff \with {
> alignAboveContext = "rh" } { c' d' e' f' }
>       >>
>       \break
>       c' d' e' f'
>       }
>       \new Staff {
>       c' d' e' f'
>       c' d' e' f'
>       }
>     >>
> }
> 
> \paper {
>     indent = 0
> }
> 
> %\layout {
> %    \context { \PianoStaff
> %        \override
> SystemStartBrace #'thickness = #0.2
> %    }
> %}
> 
> 
> 
>