Re: Setting the width of system-starter curly braces

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Siska,

> thank you indeed for the reply. Unfortunately I can't get this code to work

Here's a snippet, using David's lovely mod — hope it helps.
Kieren.
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\version "2.15.32"

theMusic = \relative c' { \repeat "unfold" 16 c4 }

\new GrandStaff <<
   \set GrandStaff.instrumentName = #"Corni"
   \set GrandStaff.shortInstrumentName = #"Cor."
   \new Staff {
     \set Staff.instrumentName = #"I"
     \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = #"I"
     \theMusic
   }
   \new Staff {
     \set Staff.instrumentName = #"II"
     \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = #"II"
     \theMusic
   }
   \new Staff {
     \set Staff.instrumentName = #"III"
     \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = #"III"
     \theMusic
   }
   \new Staff {
     \set Staff.instrumentName = #"IV"
     \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = #"IV"
     \theMusic
   }
>>

\layout {
  \context {
    \GrandStaff
    \override SystemStartBrace #'stencil = #(lambda (grob)
      (ly:stencil-scale (ly:system-start-delimiter::print grob) 0.75 1))
  }
}