G-clef [OT]

[Tony Pursell]

On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 04:21 -0500, Doug wrote:
> Explanation: for use in a musical newsletter. The G-clef is the dingus you
> see on a musical staff that indicates the treble clef. The top staff on a
> piano score.
> 
> Assume that you have jiggered up the keyboard to have a compose key.
> This will allow you to make things like ¢ and € and £ and all sorts of
> accented characters for French, Spanish, Italian, German, maybe even
> Polish--I wouldn't know about the latter--by hitting the compose key
> and two other keys in succession. These are actually Unicode characters.
> Is there a way to generate a G-clef (Unicode 1D11E) using a simple input
> from the keyboard, preferably with the compose key? If that works in
> Linux, it probably works in Windows; (it's probably dependent on the
> machine, not the OS.) Will it work on a Mac? If so, how?
> 
> (There are various contributors; the final draft is done on a Mac--not 
> by me.)
> 
> --doug
> 
> -- 
> Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley
> 
> 
> 

Do Ctrl-Shift + u and release the keys (you get a small underlined u)
then key 1D11E and hit Return or Enter.  

Tony