Hi all,

I'm looking for a way to create a horizontal spanner that looks like a 
PianoStaff brace, which automatically grows horizontally without scaling the 
whole shape. The model can be seen on this page: 
http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb10527451_00050.html
Of course this is realized thorugh type printing, with one type for the center 
"buckle".
I would be allowed to simply use slurs but I would really like to see if 
there's a better solution with acceptable effort.

Is there a way (or an existing solution) to achieve something like this without 
"manually" drawing a path? I'm reluctant to go for the self-drawing because I'm 
not sure how to make it to really look convincing (it feels like a 
type-designer's task).

Apart from the shape design itself I would need this in two variants: spanning 
between two notes and spanning whole measures (as seen on the sample page). I 
think for the first one one could conveniently build on the phrasing slur 
foundation (and probably even hijack that by overriding the stencil). For the 
second one: is it the right approach to parse the current system's content for 
barlines?
(BTW: I'm not interested in supporting multiline instances).

Any thoughts?
Thanks
Urs
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