G-clef [OT]
Tony Pursell
ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk
Fri Dec 10 16:36:39 UTC 2010
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 16:33 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 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
>
Sorry, should have read what you wanted more carefully. Try one of the
methods here,
http://www.fileformat.info/tip/microsoft/enter_unicode.htm
Tony
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