Music sharp and flat symbols

AlexBell · 09-01-2014, 12:10 AM

I'm working on an ebook which has musical flat and sharp symbols embedded in the text, and of course they don't show on reading devices which use ADE.

So far as I can tell I'll have to embed a font as I did a year or so ago for an ebook which used Greek characters. Is there any way of finding out which font families contain sharp and flat symbols? And the crescendo decrescendo symbol?

mrmikel · 09-01-2014, 08:36 AM

You might try this direction:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unic...ontsupport.htm

Tex2002ans · 09-01-2014, 02:58 PM

Doitsu pointed me to this fantastic font program a while back, BabelMap:

http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html

Once you launch the program, you are able to use Fonts - Font Coverage. This should check all available installed fonts for a given character.

In this case, you can use the tool to look for which fonts have: 266D = Flat Sign, 266F = Sharp Sign.

Another helpful font which covers nearly all of Unicode which might be useful to use is the "Droid Sans Fallback" font. This is one of the fonts used in Android, and is released under the Apache License, and free to use anywhere. It can be grabbed from here:

https://github.com/android/platform_...ter/data/fonts

I used it in one book where I needed the author's names using the original Chinese characters.

AlexBell · 09-01-2014, 07:04 PM

Many thanks to you both. That's exactly what I wanted.

09-01-2014, 12:10 AM	#1
AlexBell Wizard Posts: 3,413 Karma: 13369310 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Launceston, Tasmania Device: Sony PRS T3, Kobo Glo, Kindle Touch, iPad, Samsung SB 2 tablet	Music sharp and flat symbols I'm working on an ebook which has musical flat and sharp symbols embedded in the text, and of course they don't show on reading devices which use ADE. So far as I can tell I'll have to embed a font as I did a year or so ago for an ebook which used Greek characters. Is there any way of finding out which font families contain sharp and flat symbols? And the crescendo decrescendo symbol?

09-01-2014, 02:58 PM	#3
Tex2002ans Wizard Posts: 2,306 Karma: 13057279 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kobo Forma, Nook	Doitsu pointed me to this fantastic font program a while back, BabelMap: http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html Once you launch the program, you are able to use Fonts - Font Coverage. This should check all available installed fonts for a given character. In this case, you can use the tool to look for which fonts have: 266D = Flat Sign, 266F = Sharp Sign. Another helpful font which covers nearly all of Unicode which might be useful to use is the "Droid Sans Fallback" font. This is one of the fonts used in Android, and is released under the Apache License, and free to use anywhere. It can be grabbed from here: https://github.com/android/platform_...ter/data/fonts I used it in one book where I needed the author's names using the original Chinese characters. Last edited by Tex2002ans; 09-01-2014 at 03:26 PM.

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09-01-2014, 08:36 AM	#2
mrmikel Color me gone Posts: 2,089 Karma: 1445295 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Central Oregon Coast Device: PRS-300	You might try this direction: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unic...ontsupport.htm

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AlexBell Wizard Posts: 3,413 Karma: 13369310 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Launceston, Tasmania Device: Sony PRS T3, Kobo Glo, Kindle Touch, iPad, Samsung SB 2 tablet	Many thanks to you both. That's exactly what I wanted.

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