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

On 1 May 2014, at 16:50, [email protected] wrote:

> Barrie,
> 
> I think Matthew Hindson has some fonts that you could use.  I was looking at his Accidentals font last night using the Windows 7 font viewer tool -- it had the sharp, natural, and flat that you're looking for.  Some of Matthew's other fonts were garbled (for lack of a better word) in the viewer i was using.  In at least some of the fonts, he includes documentation for how to use the font.
> 
> http://hindson.com.au/info/free/free-fonts-available-for-download
> 
> There's also a very complex set of fonts called Bach that Hindson references from his page.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave

Dave,

Many thanks for the link. I've been examining PMW-Music.{afm,pfa} and getting nowhere. With a normal font such as Times, I can use either A or "\041" and an A is printed. Applying similar logic to the PMW-Music font, "\045" should give me a sharp sign. However, I get the same error message for every character:
'character "!" replaced by space (it has no glyph in font Music Base)' for "\041" for example.

I'll have a look at the place you suggest and see if I get any further there.

Barrie.