Re: Half a \prall

[Hans Aberg]

On 17 Sep 2007, at 09:52, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> > I discovered they can be produced using Unicode U+1D19D for the  
> > half Pralltriller, and adding U+1D1A0 for the half mordent. So the  
> > question becomes:
> >
> > Can ornaments like \prall be created using Unicode characters?

> Since you can typeset any unicode character in textual indications  
> like
> c^"Långsammare"
> you can also insert the symbols you mention using your favourite  
> text editor and
> save the file using UTF-8 encoding.

Yes, that is the idea - I am using UTF-8 files in Xcode (Mac OS X  
10.4.10). I have also found a Unicode font Euterpe that does it  
correctly:
  http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/Eimai/191

I also found (replies in the Unicode mailing list) some other Unicode  
fonts, but U+1D19D is designed wrongly, as a Pralltriller, instead of  
having only on peak and valley:
  http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/music.html
  http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
  http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/math.html
  http://www.decodeunicode.org/en/musical_symbols
Cf.
  http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html
  http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf

They have many other useful musical symbols, though.

So the question is how to choose musical symbols selectively from  
different fonts, and the make say ornament symbols from that.

  Hans Åberg