Tech: Flat symbol ???

Subject: RE: Tech: Flat symbol ???
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 08:17 AM

In the various texts I proofread, the standard was lower case b italic.

Squeaky

Subject: RE: Tech: Flat symbol ???
From: Scrump
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 08:12 AM

And I don't just mean using a lower-case ' b ' , that looks pathetic

Nonsense, I thought that was what the lower case 'b' was invented for :-)

Subject: RE: Tech: Flat symbol ???
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 07:56 AM

It's the character encoding, Mt Yellow. "Mine" seems to work with utf-8 and Western(ISO-8859-1) but may fail with others.

Subject: RE: Tech: Flat symbol ???
From: s&r
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 07:49 AM

This might help

You do need a music font. There is nothing in standard fonts that I'm aware of.
Stu

Subject: RE: Tech: Flat symbol ???
From: Mr Yellow
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 07:49 AM

1, 3, 4 , 5 & 6 are just squares - I think it needs the right font
which in a browser and on the 'Cat maybe be a little difficult.

First catch your font............

Subject: RE: Tech: Flat symbol ???
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 07:46 AM

For what, for posting here?

Looking at one website you could try:

♩        ♩                 
♪        ♪
♫        ♫
♬        ♬
♭        ♭
♮        ♮
♯        ♯

For here. Not sure how reliable it will be though.

Subject: Tech: Flat symbol ???
From: GUEST,clockwatcher
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 07:37 AM

Typing a sharp symbol is easy, just use the hash key and you can type C#, F# or whatever.

But how do type a flat symbol ? Is there a combination of keys, or some easy way of pasting it in word or in an entry field ?

And I don't just mean using a lower-case ' b ' , that looks pathetic.

Anyone know ?