I am in need of a "dingbat" type of font with musical symbols. I need 1/4-note, sharp, flat, natural, and possibly a couple of others for strictly text purposes. All "music notation" fonts I've found have white space above and blow the actual symbol which throw my 12 pt. text way off. I've even tried the international ALT-'code #', but that does exactly the same thing. Help!
I only use PCs (but I am anything but "PC" myself)! I use Finale for the music composition, and MSWord for my documents. My need is for musical symbols inserted into the text without ruining the formatting.
If you use Finale, can you not use the Maestro font that's on your PC now? Or does that ruin your line height? Depending on what you're doing, you can also export pics out of Finale.
Yes, Maestro (and all the optional notation fonts for Finale) are basically 24pt. for the symbol (somewhere in the middle) to be 12 pt. That's the problem. I might try to export tiny graphics for the few symbols I need, but I foresee problems with that also.
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