Many documents (especially older ones) use what looks like a curly brace { to join multiple elements together. Here's an example of this to illustrate programming code, and here's a thread about doing this in TeX.
This can even be done directly in posts on math.SE: an answer using these braces.
What's the best way to go about making braces like this? An ideal solution for my needs would:
- use InDesign or Photoshop
- keep the typographic look of a serif font's {
- be easily expanded to cover more or less area
Any ideas?
Update: Check out the links above. Just resizing a single { character isn't the desired effect. Imagine if there were characters that meant "start of brace", "straight part of brace", "middle of brace", and "end of brace". You could use them together to make one giant brace. Something like `-----v-----' where the brace can encompass more space by simply adding more - characters.