No need to use excel: Help Menu--> User Manual-->Maestro Character Map
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noel Stoutenburg > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 2:54 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Finale] music font character list? > > Bob Shuster wrote: > > > I've been searching in vain for a list describing each of the > > characters in various music fonts for Finale. Not just a > listing of > > the characters (which I know is included in the help files) > but a list > > with a description of each character. Does anyone know if such a > > document exists, and if so where I might find it? > > I haven't found one, but you could adapt an idea I used to print > character maps for fonts which were not included in the Finale > distribution, for example, a font, "Sonata Light", which I found on a > disk of fonts I purchased. > > 1) Open a spread sheet > > 2) In the leftmost column, at the top, enter "0"; in the row > immediately below the top, enter the formula to add 1 to value in the > row just above, and replicate that formula for 256 spaces. > > 3) In the next column to the right, enter the code your spreadsheet > uses to generate a character listing; it might be CHR(nnn); > replace the > nnn with the address of the cell to the left; set the font for this > column to the font for which you are creating the character list. > > 4) In the next column to the right, enter the description of the > character. You should be able to find these in a music > dictionary, or a > volume such as Read. > > > This is a little different than what I did: When I couldn't find now > one couldt print a character map from either WIN charmap > function, or a > complete list which provided all of the information I needed from the > font viewer provided with Windows, I used a spreadsheet to print a > decimal character map by a similar means: The leftmost > column contained > 100's, and 10's, with ones across the top, so I could generate a > character map from which I could easily see the character, > and determine > the number to enter with ALT - to generate the character. I > found the > character I was seeking, and look to the left of the row to > see that it > was 14_, and looked to top of the column to see that the _ > was replaced > by a 6, giving 146. > > ns > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
