Typophile

mapping characters

PeterShaw

Hi,

I use a certain font for writing musical chord symbols. Now I changed my software for creating sheet music. I would like to keep using my old font with the new software, but unfortunately for transposing, it requires that all twelve pitch names (A, A sharp, B flat etc.) are on certain places in the font. Which of course isn’t the case.

I hoped there would be a way to map the characters in my old font according to the positions in the new font. E.g. a symbol that used to be on Unicode 0021 would have to go to 00A8 etc.

As this is not possible from within the software, can anyone suggest a way to do this outside? It only concerns 5 characters, so it would be ok to spend an hour doing it. However, I wouldn’t want to buy software for this issue...

Thanks a lot.

Peter

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Spire

If the fonts you’re working with are in TrueType format, and you’re not averse to hand-editing text files (as opposed to working with a GUI), have a look at TTX. It’s free and it will let you do what you’re trying to do.

You can download Windows and Macintosh versions from the ttx binaries section on this page.

If you’re using Windows, I compiled a newer version of TTX a while back that you can download from Adam Twardoch’s TTX page.

PeterShaw

Thank you, Spire, it looks like this is the solution to my problem. But unfortunately I can’t quite figure out what to change in all this data.

Can you give me a hint?

Thanks a lot again.

Peter

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