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Thread #146532   Message #3392889
Posted By: GUEST,Charles Macfarlane
20-Aug-12 - 05:13 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Typing foreign stuff & symbols on a PC
Subject: RE: Tech: Typing foreign stuff & symbols on a PC
> From: Haruo
>
> Yes, if Mudcat used (or at least permitted) "full HTML" there are a lot of things we could do nicely that it doesn't permit.

The trouble with webpages using fancy fonts is that they rely on fonts that may only be on the developer's PC! I spent some time one evening devising how to make guitar chord diagrams look right on a web-page without needing embedded images. The result looked fine on my PC, but noone else could read them - I hadn't realised that the font I'd used had been installed onto my PC by one or other of the pieces of music software I was trialling at the time.

Still trying to avoid images, I eventually went for this sort of thing:
Simple chord charts using tables