Re: Bracketed notes

[Jonathan Kulp]

Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Am Montag, 4. Mai 2009 17:28:54 schrieb Jonathan Kulp:
> > Mark Austin wrote:
> > > Is it possible to enclose a note in brackets? I need to do this to
> > > indicate a lead note played the first time but not on subsequent
> > > repeats.
> > In a thread a while back we came up with a way to put brackets (not
> > parentheses) around a rest.  You could try it with your lead note, too:
>
> Another possibility is to hook into the way \parenthesize formats the 
> parentheses: It obtains stencils for the opening and closing parentheses, so 
> one was is to simply override them with opening and closing brackets. See the 
> attached snippet, which defines a \bracketify command, which can be used almost 
> like \parenthesize (bracketing individual notes of a chord doesn't work due to 
> my use of \once\override inside the function).
Genius, Reinhold!  Very nice.

Jon

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