G-clef [OT]

[Johnny Rosenberg]

Den 2010-12-10 12:18:37 skrev Tony Pursell <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk>:

> 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
>

This will not work in Windows though. However, I think there is a similar  
method for doing this in Windows, but since I don't use Windows myself I  
simply didn't care enough to find out how…

-- 
Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg