[PATCH] Ligature brackets

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Hi!
> 
> Attached is a patch that introduces ligature brackets (anyone knows a
> better term for these beasts?).  These brackets are used in modern
> notation when transcribing mensural music; they simply mark a series
> of notes that, in the original notation, formed a ligature.
> 
> Example:
> 
> c d e \[ f g a g \] f e d c
> 
> This puts square edges around the notes f g a g.  This, of course,
> could have been implemented simplier, namely without using a spanner.
> However, for future extensions, I think a spanner fits best.  I am
> planning to use this syntax to enclose ligatures in general (i.e. not
> only mensural or transcribed ones).

Thanks for the patch, I'm putting it in. Some notes:

 * We're getting a plethora of brackets. It would be nice if we could
    merge all the code into a single .cc file, and have a single
    bracket-interface, which would group all the layout properties of
    those brackets. Other code (bass figure, piano pedal, tuplet,
    etc.) could use functions of the Bracket_interface to print brackets.

 * Perhaps your brackets are useful in more contexts? LigatureBracket
   seems too specific a name. In musical analysis  it's also quite
   common to delineate section using brackets, isn't it? 

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