Special ascii characters useful to musicians & liturgists

[TimSharrock]

™ - hey! He's correct! But I'm not so sure why I might want to ™ any music

Adam lay ybounden, Bounden in a bond:
Four thousand winter Thought he not too long.
And all was for an apple™, an apple™ that he took,
As clerkes finden in their new MacBook™

[keitha]

mcb said

¿əsɐəǀd ‘əɯ dǀəɥ ɦpoqəɯos uɐᴐ

¡sn ɟo ʎuɐ oʇ uǝddɐɥ uɐɔ ʇı - ǝuolɐ ʇou ǝɹ,noʎ ʇɐɥʇ ʍouʞ oʇ noʎ pǝʇuɐʍ ʇsnɾ ı

[mcb]

Adam lay ybounden, Bounden in a bond:

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[mcb]

¿pəʇɐɹəpoɯ ɓu!ʇʇəɓ əɹoɟəq dn s!ɥʇ dəəʞ uɐɔ əʍ ɓuo| ʍoɥ ɹəpuoʍ

[presbyter]

Adam lay ybounden, Bounden in a bond:

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Will that be the ORDinary version or the more Brittenic setting?

[TimSharrock]

¿pəʇɐɹəpoɯ ɓu!ʇʇəɓ əɹoɟəq dn s!ɥʇ dəəʞ uɐɔ əʍ ɓuo| ʍoɥ ɹəpuoʍ

it seems quite appropriate for typesetting kangaroosies....

[Southern Comfort]

There was a topic to this thread folks, and rotating your colleagues screens wasn't it!

Sorry.

Now, does anyone know a shortcut for the trademark (TM) symbol. Admittedly, I only ever use it ironically, but it would be a useful one to know.

Superscript caps would do it, without the need for any symbol. BTW, Alt-0174 gives you ® which is the symbol for registered trademark.

If anyone knows how to get the Performing Right symbol (like the copyright symbol but P in a circle) that you see on CDs, etc, that would be useful. I've had to create it as a graphic image in a word processor in the past.

[presbyter]

If anyone knows how to get the Performing Right symbol (like the copyright symbol but P in a circle) that you see on CDs, etc, that would be useful.

It's on a Mac in Arial Regular font but I have not found the key combination for it yet.

[mcb]

If anyone knows how to get the Performing Right symbol (like the copyright symbol but P in a circle) that you see on CDs, etc, that would be useful. I've had to create it as a graphic image in a word processor in the past.

It's there in Unicode, so you may not be able to use it, SC. I found this on the web somewhere:

In more recent versions of Word, you can get a character by typing its 4-digit Unicode, er, code and then hitting Alt+X immediately after; so in this case I type 2117 and then hit Alt+X.

No idea whether it works; I'm a *beep* user. But here's one to copy and paste - ℗ Again I expect your computer needs to be set up for Unicode (which, btw, is a different kind of thing from TrueType and OpenFont, SC: if I understand it right, lots of TT/OF fonts use unicode for their character encoding) for you to be able to see it.

[TimSharrock]

If anyone knows how to get the Performing Right symbol (like the copyright symbol but P in a circle) that you see on CDs, etc, that would be useful. I've had to create it as a graphic image in a word processor in the past.

it is unicode code point 2117 ℗ (the link describes several ways to get at it which I could not get to work, so I used a more complex route, but keeping a document to cut-and-paste from is probably as easy as any)

[TimSharrock]

In more recent versions of Word, you can get a character by typing its 4-digit Unicode, er, code and then hitting Alt+X immediately after; so in this case I type 2117 and then hit Alt+X.

No idea whether it works

I have just tried that in Word 2007, and it worked fine for me.

some of the other symbols in the same group may be useful:

• U+211F RESPONSE ℟
• U+2123 VERSICLE ℣
• U+2108 SCRUPLE ℈

[Southern Comfort]

Thanks very much for this. Yes, it does work for me too.

Back to a previous query: anyone know how to get lower-case a with a macron (horizontal line) above it ?

[Southern Comfort]

PS: Forgot to say that the Word thing only works if you already have a Unicode font installed on your machine (in my case, Lucida Sans Unicode). You can't change the font to anything else to see what it looks like, either.

Don't know what would happen if you had more than one Unicode font installed. Where might one find others? I don't recall ever installing the Lucida one. It either came with the machine or with some software or other.

[Southern Comfort]

If anyone knows how to get the Performing Right symbol (like the copyright symbol but P in a circle) that you see on CDs, etc, that would be useful.

It's on a Mac in Arial Regular font but I have not found the key combination for it yet.

So how do you know it's there?

[presbyter]

So how do you know it's there?

My pet Snow Leopard tells me it is (Just getting used to 10.6 here)