Re: Setting the width of system-starter curly braces

[Siska Ádám]

Hi David,


thank you indeed for the reply. Unfortunately I can't get this code to work; 
I'm getting the following error during compiling:

Drawing systems...ERROR: In procedure ly:stencil-scale:
ERROR: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting Stencil): #<unspecified>

Unfortunately I don't know Scheme, so although I tried all the little syntactic 
modifications I could imagine (changing parentheses or adding # symbols here or 
there randomly), I couldn't make it work. Could you please have a look at this 
error message and suggest me how to proceed?


Thank you again,
Ádám


On 2012.03.18., at 23:09, David Nalesnik wrote:

> Hi Ádám,
> 
>> Unfortunately the curly brace created for these four instruments is way
>> too wide. Is there a way to shrink the vertical size of the curly brace for
>> the GrandStaff (so that it would have the same width as the curly brace of
>> a GrandStaff consisting of only two instruments)?
>> 
> 
> Another solution would be to scale the brace like so:
> 
> \override GrandStaff.SystemStartBrace #'stencil = #(lambda (grob)
>     (ly:stencil-scale (ly:system-start-delimiter::print grob) 0.75 1))
> 
> Here the brace is scaled horizontally to 0.75.
> 
> -David