FR: Auto-bracket option for Paragraph Styles

I’m working on a piece at the moment where there is a million beaming changes that the client wants notated as text above the staff, in brackets (e.g. notated (3+2) rather than 3+2.)

It would be really useful to have a paragraph style that would automatically bracket any text entered. I guess many could also use this type of thing for items like subtitles?

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Perhaps crazy idea: record a macro like this.

  1. select a text object, hit Return
  2. now, not before, select Start Recording Macro
  3. assuming macOS, hit Cmd-leftArrow
  4. hit shortcut for desired open bracket glyph
  5. hit Cmd-rightArrow
  6. hit shortcut for desired close bracket glyph
  7. hit Escape
  8. select End Recording Macro and save with a creative name such as Add Parentheses to Text

It still reduces all these operations to a single click.

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Great suggestion.

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