Re: Using flat symbol in text

[Bill Mooney]

Hi Nick,
After a bit of tinkering, and using the Character Map application 
(Ubuntu10.04)(but I would think it would also work in Windows) to '
Copy' the character 'music flat sign' (which has the same code as you 
used - funnily enough! :) ) I think the following provide what I think 
is a visually ok result:-

meter = \markup {  { Original key: \concat { E\bold\large { \lower #.7 
\char ##x266D } }minor } }
 opus = \markup { { Original key: \concat { E \lower #.7 { 
\italic\bold\huge ♭ } } minor } }

...obviously one could alter several of the parameters to suit...
note the positioning of the concat command!

Hope this helps

Bill