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Lemzwerg: Lemzwerg moved page Bracketed Passages to Bracketed passages without leaving a redirect: Only the first letter of a title should be uppercase

2025-11-24T05:20:33Z

Lemzwerg moved page Bracketed Passages to Bracketed passages without leaving a redirect: Only the first letter of a title should be uppercase

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Lemzwerg at 22:48, 21 November 2025

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Jean Abou Samra: Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series

2025-11-16T18:46:00Z

Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series

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	Code to make Lilypond draw left and right brackets vertically spanning a staff. This is intended to indicate an optional passage of music.		Code to make Lilypond draw left and right brackets vertically spanning a staff. This is intended to indicate an optional passage of music.

	<lilypond version="2.24.0" full>		<lilypond version="2.24" full>
	%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=377		%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=377

Jean Abou Samra: Import snippet from LSR

2025-10-26T22:41:04Z

Import snippet from LSR

New page

Code to make Lilypond draw left and right brackets vertically spanning a staff. This is intended to indicate an optional passage of music.

<lilypond version="2.24.0" full>
%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=377

% The below, invented by Mats Bengtsson, creates left and right brackets vertically
% spanning an entire staff. It is useful for offseting optional passages of music,
% as shown in the example

\paper { tagline = ##f }

% The number next to "th" in (th 0.2) controls thickness of the brackets.
#(define-markup-command (left-bracket layout props) ()
"Draw left hand bracket"
(let* ((th 0.2) ;; todo: take from GROB
(width (* 2.5 th)) ;; todo: take from GROB
(ext '(-2.8 . 2.8))) ;; todo: take line-count into account
(ly:bracket Y ext th width)))

leftBracket = {
\once\override BreathingSign.text = #(make-left-bracket-markup)
\once\override BreathingSign.break-visibility = #end-of-line-invisible
\once\override BreathingSign.Y-offset = ##f
% Trick to print it after barlines and signatures:
\once\override BreathingSign.break-align-symbol = #'custos
\breathe
}

#(define-markup-command (right-bracket layout props) ()
"Draw right hand bracket"
(let* ((th .2);;todo: take from GROB
(width (* 2.5 th)) ;; todo: take from GROB
(ext '(-2.8 . 2.8))) ;; todo: take line-count into account
(ly:bracket Y ext th (- width))))

rightBracket = {
\once\override BreathingSign.text = #(make-right-bracket-markup)
\once\override BreathingSign.Y-offset = ##f
\breathe
}

%example of use:
\score {
\relative c'{
\set Score.timing=##f \key f \major
f8( g4 a2 a8-- g4 f8 g4 f g f8[ e] f4 e2 f4 e2
\leftBracket
g4. a8 bes2 a4 g a bes16[ a g8 a bes] c2
\bar""
\break
bes8[ a] g4 bes a2 g8[ a bes c a] bes2 a4.\( bes8\) a4 g g8_-[ f16 g] a4 g f g2)
\rightBracket
g8([ bes a g a bes])
}
\layout{
\context{
\Staff
\remove "Time_signature_engraver"
}
}
}
</lilypond>

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[[Category:Tweaks and overrides]]
[[Category:Symbols and glyphs]]
[[Category:Workaround]]