RE: response character

[Paul Harouff]

In Windows select Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Character Map

Choose the font Arial Unicode MS or Lucida Sans Unicode, then scroll down to 211F (or check Advanced View, character set Unicode, and type 211F in the Go to Unicode box).

Select, Copy, then Paste into your ly file.

Arial ℟
Lucida ℟

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden] On Behalf Of Stan Sanderson

Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:20 PM
To: Maximilian Albert
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: response character

On Mar 13, 2007, at 9:12 PM, Maximilian Albert wrote:

>>>> The response lyrics are supposed to begin with a special text 
>>>> symbol
>>>> that is a capital 'R' that has a slash through it.  Does anyone
>>>> know of a lilypond or LaTeX symbol that does this?
>>>
>>> I've looked for such a thing in the past without success.
>>>
>> The symbol is contained (apparently) in the Apple Symbol font, and is
>> identified by the following:
>>
>> Unicode: 211F
>> UTF8: E2 84 9F
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ---
>>
>> (all of which is probably of little help- sorry!)
>
> Well, at least it helped me to get it working. ;)
>
> If you use an editor that is unicode-aware you can simply insert the
> corresponding symbol wherever it is needed and rely on lilypond to do
> the rest. Of course, the precise process depends on the editor. In my
> quick test I used emacs where you can enter any symbol using its hex
> unicode value. Because of some weird setting that had messed up my 
> meta
> key I had to include the line
>
>    (define-key global-map [?\C-c ?u] #'ucs-insert)
>
> in my .emacs file. Then typing CTRL-C, U, 211F resulted in the symbol
> being inserted. (Only a white box was shown in emacs itself but
> compiling with lilypond and viewing the pdf file worked just fine).
>
> If you use another editor and cannot figure it out yourself, maybe 
> other
> users know how to do it.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Max

Apple users (OSX) using a text editor with UTF-8 text encoding (I 
like Smultron, and JEdit with Lilypond tool works also) can use the 
Character Palette.

It is accessed by going to System Preferences==>International.

Click on the "Input Menu" button; check the box for Character Palette 
in the window under the buttons. Also check the box "Show input menu 
in menu bar".

The Response symbol can be found in the Character Palette by 
selecting Symbols==>Letterlike Symbols. If you double-click on the 
symbol, it will appear in the active document at the cursor. For 
example, here < ? >. (There is a response symbol in the <>.)

This works for any viewable character.

Stan

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