Experimental self-energies of optical phonons in the high-T(c) superconductors turn out to be important for the characterization of the superconducting energy gap. Through electron-phonon coupling, which causes frequency, linewidth and intensity changes - so-called anomalies - of Raman and fir-active phonons at T(c), a gap value in RBa2Cu3O7-delta of 2DELTA/kT(c) = 5.0 +/- 0.1 was determined. This value may correspond to a minimum in an anisotropic gap in this material. We show that a slight admixture of Au appears to reduce the anisotropy.