Thanks everyone for your help. I get the digest version, so my belated additional info about my OS was sent before I read everyone's replies.
I'm updating some files that I created using Finale 2003 in OS9 and I used a custom fraction font that is only PS type 1 so it won't work in OSX. My best option would probably be to use a basic font editing program like FontLab's TypeTool (US$100) to remap the fraction glyphs in NCS to accessible characters and save it as a new custom OT font. If anyone can recommend a cheaper alternative, I'm all ears (I'm not too concerned with sending the files to anyone else). Thanks for your help, Brian Williams >> Dear list, >> >> Does anyone know how I can enter some of the "off the keyboard" unicode font >> characters into a text block in Finale? Specifically, I'm trying to enter >> fractions from the OpenType version of New Century Schoolbook. The fractions >> show up as glyphs in the character palette but have no associated keyboard >> combination to enter them directly. I tried using the character palette to >> enter them into a TextEdit document and then copying and pasting them into a >> Finale text block, but all I got was a question mark in its place. >> >> Brian > > Hi Brian, > > I struggled with this myself a number of times. Basically, Finale > does not support Unicode (bug them about it to get your complaint on > the list) so the extended characters are not directly accessible. > > If you aren't able to find the characters you need ON the keyboard in > some font or other (the Mac Character Palette app is great for that!) > then your only recourse is to export them from a text application as > a graphic, and import them into Finale as Shape Expressions. Finale > in 2008 had a nasty bug that prevented Shape Expressions from > attaching properly to their handles, so they jumped around in > different views and at different zooms. I haven't checked to see if > Finale 2009 has repaired that particular bug or not, so you might be > in for some frustrating times. > > If you own a font editing program, you can change the "slot" of the > glyph you need to something you can type (hopefully under a new name > so you don't lose, say, your letter "Q" in the font!) and get around > it this way. You won't be able to send the file to anyone, though. > > Sorry for the bad news. > > Christopher _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
