Flat and sharp signs

Dorico
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Hi

How can I write a flat or sharp sign in the Flow Title?

Ex.: I want to write the flow title Ab Major

Kind regards
Patrick

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Copy-paste from here: https://www.smufl.org/version/latest/range/standardAccidentals12Edo/

Just a heads-up: some fonts don’t have very nice spacing for the flat glyph (including Minion Pro, my preferred font).

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Reminder : the Unicode codes for

  • Flat U+266D â™­


  • Natural U+266E â™®


  • Sharp U+266F ♯

Useful if you do not want to follow the copy-paste route described by Dan (providing the font has nice spacings, of course)

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Hi Dan and Marc

If I copy from smulf.org I get a 
Uf I use U+266D I have this as my Flow title
I know nothing about computers and fonts.
I only work woith Dorico . I’m working with an iMac


Patrick

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Are you setting your font to Bravura?

Some fonts don’t have those symbols. Bravura is your best bet (or actually, Bravura Text for better spacing).

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Minion Pro gave me also a square sign. ()

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Try Bravura Text.

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Bravura Text is ok, but the Flat sign is small compared to the “normal” letters

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You can make it bigger easily…

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Use Academico not Bravura Text.

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If you’re still having troubles, Copy/Paste from this file.
Flat Symbol.zip (400 KB)

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Dear Patrick,
What is it that U+266D gave you ? I don’t know what system you’re on (that’s why signatures are useful on the forum), so I can only help you if you’re on mac… Or search the forum with unicode, all the solutions have been already given :wink:

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Hi Craig

How have you created the flat sign ? It’s exactly what I want

Many thank’s

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Hi Marc

I’m using an iMac
mac OS Mojave

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I used MS Word to insert it, then copy/paste into Dorico. MS Word has a nice Symbol Insertion tool.
Maybe Marc will explain more. Since he is also on Mac, he can better advise you. Apparently there is a hot-key on Mac.
Daniel has said there are plans to make tokens for these symbols. But, I don’t know when they might appear.

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Hi Patrick.
In macOS preferences, go to keyboard> layout
Press the + button to add the Unicode layout. Tick the “display current layout in the menu bar” thing.
In Shortcuts, add a shortcut to toggle between layouts.
Now you can use Unicode!
Go back to Dorico and when you need to input a Unicode glyph, toggle keyboard layout to unicode, press alt all the way and with the other hand write 266d. Don’t forget to go to your previous keyboard layout after that!

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Hi Marc and Craig

Many thank’s to you. In Dorico themself I can not write the flat sign (alt 266d). but in word it works fine and I copy it into Dorico.

So a combination of your ideas works fine for me
Best wishes to you

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Dear Pat,
It does work in Dorico too (I use that) but unfortunately not with tokens, IIRC… You have to use overrides.