Thanks, Pierre. That's exactly what I'm looking for. So what does the
ParenthesesItem X-extent do?

James W

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Pierre Perol-Schneider <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> I understand the idea but I thing you missunderstand the X-extent effect.
> If I follow you, you'd rather extent the note head.
> So here it goes :
>
> \version "2.19.15"
>
> parenWider = {
>   \once\override NoteHead.X-extent = #'(-1.5 . 1.3)
>   \once\override Accidental.X-extent = #'(1.5 . 0)
>   \once\override Accidental.extra-offset = #'(1.5 . 0)
> }
>
> \score {
>   \new Staff { \parenWider \parenthesize fis'4 }
> }
>
> HTH,
> Pierre
>
> 2015-02-06 19:36 GMT+01:00 James Worlton <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I"m trying to widen the parentheses so the left brace doesn't collide
>> with the sharp. The code I'm trying isn't working. Is this possible?
>>
>> \version "2.19.15"
>>
>> parenWider = {
>>   \once \override ParenthesesItem #'X-extent = #'(-8 . 0)
>> }
>>
>> \score {
>>   \new Staff { \parenWider \parenthesize fis'4 }
>> }
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James Worlton
>>
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