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Re: Quarter tone sharp symbol in font
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: Quarter tone sharp symbol in font |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 07:29:09 +0100 (CET) |
>> I was in fact using markup, so this answer is excellent, and I
>> eventually found \semisharp. But it actually came up when I wanted
>> to use a semisharp in a text document, and I was surprised to find
>> that although defined as Unicode 1D132, no font that I can find has
>> a glyph at that code point.
>
> I wish I knew how emacs performs its glyph substitution. My sampler
> file gives up at 2b20 (white pentagon), but when I typed in 1d132 and
> 1d133, it certainly had a go, but was let down somewhat by the screen
> resolution.
In Emacs, move the cursor to the interesting character, then press
C-u C-x =
to see the current character's information. For example, I get the
font
-Free-Musica-normal-normal-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
for character U+1D132 (since I haven't a special font setup for Emacs,
it takes a loong time on my GNU/Linux box until this glyph gets
displayed – this is probably a bug in the Emacs version I use).
If I now say
fc-list -v | less
I can search for `Musica', and I get font
`/usr/share/fonts/truetype/Musica.ttf' as the result.
Another solution to search for fonts that contain musical glyphs in
the U+1D1xx range is to say
fc-list -v | grep -50 01d1: | less
If you see many `f's in the `01d1:' line chances are high that musical
glyphs are covered. Such fonts could then be set up in Emacs for
covering the Unicode block. On my box I additionally get `Symbola',
`Noto Sans Symbols', and `Ostrich Sans Bold' (the last one is a fake,
containing empty glyphs instead).
Werner
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