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Thread #14560   Message #125888
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20-Oct-99 - 11:25 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Musical fonts for windows
Subject: RE: Musical fonts for windows
Jon - I'm after doing a couple of things: firstly producing lyric / chord sheets witout having to use a lower-case b as a flat symbol or hash for a sharp. I also need to write a couple of doucuments on basic music theory.

The trouble with the Cubase font and the ABC2Win Breathnach font is that the symbols are very small with regard to their point size. It's neccesary to use a fairly large size to read them. This of course gives masses of 'space' above and below each character i.e. if you use a big enough size to correspond to a 12 point text, all the other line spacing is messed up. Additionally, it's difficult to get the symbols vertically well centred alongside the text.

I've not tried the noteworthy fonts. Are these better?

What I really want is something that will give me the basic symbols that 'look' a similar size to text characters

Thanks,

Ed