Brackets are used in musical analysis to indicate structure in musical
pieces. LilyPond supports a simple form of nested horizontal
brackets. To use this, add the
Horizontal_bracket_engraver (lilypond-internals)
to
Staff (lilypond-internals)
context. A bracket is started with
\startGroup
and closed with \stopGroup
\score { \relative c'' { c4\startGroup\startGroup c4\stopGroup c4\startGroup c4\stopGroup\stopGroup } \layout { \context { \Staff \consists "Horizontal_bracket_engraver" }}}
Program reference: HorizontalBracket (lilypond-internals) , NoteGroupingEvent (lilypond-internals) .
Examples: input/regression/note-group-bracket.ly.
This page is for LilyPond-2.5.11 (development-branch).