HorizontalBracket - LilyPond program-reference
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#### HorizontalBracket

HorizontalBracket objects are created by: Horizontal_bracket_engraver

Standard settings:

`thickness` (number):
  `1.0`

  Bar line thickness, measured in `line-thickness`.

`Y-offset` (number):
  `ly:side-position-interface::y-aligned-side`

  The vertical amount that this object is moved relative to its Y-parent

`padding` (dimension, in staff space):
  `0.2`

  Add this much extra space between objects that are next to each other.

`staff-padding` (dimension, in staff space):
  `0.2`

  Maintain this much space between reference points and the staff. Its effect is to align objects of differing sizes (like the dynamic p and f) on their baselines.

`direction` (direction):
  `-1`

  #UP or #DOWN, #LEFT or #RIGHT? (or a numerical value, #UP=1, #DOWN=-1, #LEFT=-1, #RIGHT=1, CENTER=0)

`side-axis` (number):
  `1`

  Is this object horizontally or vertically next to another object?

`bracket-flare` (pair of numbers):
  `'(0.5 . 0.5)`

  A pair of numbers specifying how much edges of brackets should slant outward. Value 0.0 means straight edges

This object supports the following interfaces: spanner-interface, line-interface, side-position-interface, horizontal-bracket-interface, spanner-interface and grob-interface

This page is for LilyPond-2.8.8 (stable-branch).

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