Re: Using Unicode symbols for accidentals

[David Kastrup]

Hans Aberg <address@hidden> writes:

> On 12 Nov 2011, at 05:38, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, it is just programmers and not musicians who have a
>> reasonable chance of being able to figure out how to produce ♯ on a
>> computer keyboard.
>
> One approach is having an editor which can provide replacements for
> input text. So one just types fs..., and it will replace it with
> f♯. The editor of this mail wants to replace ... by …, so I have to
> trick it not to. :-)

If the editor is doing smart replacements anyway, he can display an
actual note (akin to the kind of moving letter types used for
typesetting scores at the time of Monteverdi).

-- 
David Kastrup