Re: bracketed silence

[Jonathan Kulp]

Hi Luis,

I got the brackets to go inside the staff with this code.  If you fiddle 
with the markup (change font size, spacing, whatever)  and the values 
inside the parentheses you can probably get it to look like you want.

Jon


\version "2.11.51"

\relative c'' {
   \override TextScript #'staff-padding = #'()
   \once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'(-0.6 . -3.0)
   b4\rest^\markup { [  ] }
}



luis jure wrote:
> hello list,
>
> i'd need to place brackets around a rest in the score. something like
> \parenthesize but square brackets [ ].
>
> i tried using a \markup, but no matter what i try, i found no way to
> place the brackets in the staff around the rest. i tried every tweak i
> could find in the manual, but it seems to me that lilypond is always
> smarter and refuses to place the markup _in_ the staff.
>
> could anyone help me with this? is it at all possible?
>
> best,
>
> lj