lilypond feature request (was: Some doubts)

[Jim]

Lilyponders,

The brackets that Daniel Berjón Díez has asked about are very handy in
organ music when indicating a change in registration or when changing
from one manual (keyboard) to another.  I have scores where you can
see these used up to ten times per page.

In truth, not all publishers use the same symbols for this task, but
the thin-line brackets are reasonably common and quite clear as to
their meaning, and something I'd like to add to my scores.

I did have a look at the molecule-hacking code.  Ouch!

Thanks,
-jvh
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James Van Horn
Seattle, WA  USA
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On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:32:48 +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> 
> Daniel Berjón Díez wrote:
> > 1. Is there a way to typeset the half brackets printed in red
> > on the example? They're used, as all of you know, to indicate
> > that the notes in the bracket should be played with the left
> > hand, so the player don't break his/her right hand trying to
> > stretch it to play all what's written in the upper staff. ;)
> > I don't know if they receive any proper name in English, sorry
> > about that.
> 
> As far as I know, there is no builtin support for it. You may
> want to try something similar to
>
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html#molecule-hacking.ly