Issue 889 in lilypond: SystemStartBrace's variable vertical extent should not affect their weight

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Status: Accepted
Owner: v.villenave
Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium Engraving-nitpick

New issue 889 by v.villenave: SystemStartBrace's variable vertical extent  
should not affect their weight
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=889

New report from Jonathan Wilkes:

In the following example, the weight of the braces don't match.
If you uncomment staves 4 and 5 you'll see how distracting such a huge,
thick brace would be in an orchestral setting (grouping the strings
together, for example).

\score {
  <<
  \new PianoStaff {
    <<
    \new Staff { c }
    \new Staff { c }
    >>
  }
  \new PianoStaff {
    <<
    \new Staff = "one" { c }
    \new Staff = "two" { c }
    \new Staff = "three" { c }
    % \new Staff = "four" { c }
    % \new Staff = "five" { c }
    >>
  }
  >>
}

A solution would be to vertically stretch braces (instead of scaling them,
which is the current behavior).
An example of a vertically stretched brace may be found on
http://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/d/dd/IMSLP00510-Debussy_-_Preludes__Book_2.pdf
(though French publishers are hardly a good example when it comes to music
scores).

Attachments:
        different_weights.png  5.1 KB

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