Adding International Characters in Text |
If you are preparing scores in a language other than English, then you may need to include international characters in lyrics or other text. For example: è ã If your keyboard supports the international characters you need, then you can simply type them. Or, if you already have developed your own techniques for entering international characters, then you will not need to follow the procedure described below. The procedure described here uses the Character Map utility which is included in the Windows Accessories folder. This procedure has on the limitation that a given text object in Composer can use only one font. The exception is that free text objects can mix ordinary text with Composer's Harmony font music symbols. There are a number of fonts have international characters, so this limitation should not present a problem. To insert an international character in lyrics or text:
You can specify a font name for all text objects of a given type, such as all lyrics, or all free. For instructions, see Font Type and Size for Types of Text. You can also specify the font name for a specific text object, as described in Selecting Font Type, Size, and Properties.
If you choose this method of entering the numeric code for the character, then skip the remaining steps of this procedure.
Click the or button in the left bottom corner of the screen. Windows will display a pop up menu. In the pop-up menu, choose All Programs / Accessories / System Tools / Character Map. The Character Map utility window will be displayed, as shown here:
The character that you click will be displayed in a larger size, as illustrated for the ñ character, illustrated above.
Character Map will show the character you have selected:
The text cursor should still be blinking, as you had temporarily left it to use the Character Map utility:
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