[sib-access] Re: Interspersing Musical Symbols in Regular Text
- From: "Alison Trelfa" <alison.trelfa@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:54:25 -0000
Hi,
Wow! I was playing with word and the opus text font. I'm really impressed
and didn't know that you could write any music symbols in word, albeit basic
ones.
Alison.
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Subject: [sib-access] Interspersing Musical Symbols in Regular Text
> Sibelius BlogInteresting...at least I think so.
> Dave
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> Typing notes in text
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> Posted: 17 Mar 2011 02:54 PM PDT
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> Sometimes you might need to show note symbols in the middle of a run
> of regular text. Sibelius makes this as easy as pie. Simply right-click
> during input of most kinds of text (e.g. Technique text, Plain text, etc.)
> to see the useful word menu, which contains a number of common musical
> symbols. Click on the symbol you want to add to your text object, and in
> it goes. Notice that most of the symbols also have a keyboard shortcut,
> and theyâ?Tre generally easy to remember because they match the position
> on the Keypad window: for example, a quarter note (crotchet) is Ctrl+4
> (Windows) or Command-4.
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> The symbols come from a font called Opus Text, which is designed to
> be interspersed with text. You can even use this font in other
> applications, like Microsoft Word, should you need to put simple musical
> symbols in your documents.
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