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> 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
> 
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