Adding parentheses around an expressive mark or chordal note

Revision as of 18:52, 16 November 2025 by Jean Abou Samra (talk | contribs) (Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series)

The \parenthesize function is a special tweak that encloses objects in parentheses. The associated grob is ParenthesesItem.

\version "2.24"

\relative c' {
  c2-\parenthesize ->
  \override Parentheses.padding = #0.1
  \override Parentheses.font-size = #-4
  <d \parenthesize f a>2
}