Staff brackets and dividers (U+E000–U+E00F)
| Glyph | Description | Glyph | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| | U+E000 (and U+1D114) brace Brace | | U+E001 reversedBrace Reversed brace |
| | U+E002 (and U+1D115) bracket Bracket | | U+E003 bracketTop Bracket top |
| | U+E004 bracketBottom Bracket bottom | | U+E005 reversedBracketTop Reversed bracket top |
| | U+E006 reversedBracketBottom Reversed bracket bottom | | U+E007 systemDivider System divider |
| | U+E008 systemDividerLong Long system divider | | U+E009 systemDividerExtraLong Extra long system divider |
| | U+E00A splitBarDivider Split bar divider (bar spans a system break) | | U+E00B staffDivideArrowDown Staff divide arrow down |
| | U+E00C staffDivideArrowUp Staff divide arrow up | | U+E00D staffDivideArrowUpDown Staff divide arrows |
Recommended stylistic alternates
| Glyph | Description | Glyph | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| | uniE000.salt01 braceSmall Brace (small) | | uniE000.salt02 braceLarge Brace (large) |
| | uniE000.salt03 braceLarger Brace (larger) | | uniE000.salt04 braceFlat Brace (flat) |
Implementation notes
The brace glyph should have a height of 1em, i.e. the height of a single five-line stave, and should be scaled proportionally (i.e. in both dimensions, not only in the vertical dimension) in a scoring application to the appropriate height of the two or more staves it encompasses.
Font designers may choose to include a number of alternative brace glyphs designed to accommodate larger distances, to avoid the standard brace glyph becoming too wide and bold at larger sizes. (Bravura, for example, includes four stylistic alternates for brace, designed to encompass numbers of staves from one up to 10 or more.)
bracket is a complete bracket of a fixed height useful for displaying brackets in text-based documents or applications.
To display a bracket of variable height in a scoring application, use bracketTop and bracketBottom as the top and bottom terminals of a bracket drawn using a stroked line or filled rectangle of the appropriate width.