Re: Wanted: a font that contains music accidentals such as sharp, flat and natural

David Duffy <[email protected]> Thu, 1 May 2014 12:48:47 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.type-setting.lout
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 1 May 2014, Barrie Stott wrote:

> I'm creating a document about music that contains musical examples. The 
> examples are created using mup, a program for typesetting music, where 
> each example is turned into .eps file. The document proper is a lout 
> file that includes the musical examples and I want to be able to refer 
> to flat (b), sharp (#) and natural.
>
> Does anyone know of a suitable font for gaining access to such 
> characters from within lout?

Perhaps

http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Musica.ttf

which you have to then convert to AFM, and then make a lout LCM file -
see the README in lout.lib/maps and the Expert manual.

David Duffy (who hasn't actually done this).