Request two Welsh vowels be added to the Special Characters (F2) palette
I'm doing a song in MuseScore with Welsh lyrics, and noticed that the circumflex w and y are not presently in the F2 palette's tabs (Common Symbols/Musical Symbols/Unicode Symbols). (The vowels are also present as non-circumflex w & y; the circumflex indicates that they are "long" vowels.)
I was able to enter them in the song by copy/paste from another source, but it would be convenient if they could be natively in MuseScore.
If it helps, the Unicode html character numbers are:
ŵ = 373
ŷ = 375
Thanks,
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Take a look: F2-> Unicode->Latin Extended A, it seems to me what you are looking
In reply to Take a look: F2-> by Shoichi
On my system (windows 10) Latin Extended A only shows seven characters that are not blank/rectangles, and none of them are circumflex w or y.
Is there a way that I can populate the fields, so as to acquire the characters?
In reply to On my system (windows 10) by marty strasinger
Try to set the font to use, eg. lyrics, from Style / Text, while I look for an old conversation
In reply to Try to set the font to use, by Shoichi
A note about fonts https://musescore.org/en/handbook/file-format
I can not find it but there is a way to check 'on the fly' if a font is supported
In reply to On my system (windows 10) by marty strasinger
If you are seeing blank rectangles, that says the font you have chosen to use doesn't have those chrcaters. So, choose a different font. The default font in MuseScore - FreeSerif - does have them, as shown in the image above.
Still, I don't see a reason they couldn't also be added to the "Common" tab if they are indeed common.
In reply to If you are seeing blank by Marc Sabatella
Unfortunately, it's different at my end. The attached shows my Latin Extended A screen, and also confirms that I'm using the default FreeSerif font.
In reply to Unfortunately, it's different by marty strasinger
perhaps a Win 10 problem? Check how to install (or check) a font on Windows 10
...This problem occurs if a system font "Segoe UI Symbol" is missing or corrupt...
In reply to perhaps a Win 10 problem? by Shoichi
I confirmed that I have "Segoe UI Symbol Regular" font on my system.
Like you said, perhaps it's corrupt, I'll look into that.
In reply to I confirmed that I have by marty strasinger
I found some info online (attached) the Segoi UI Symbol font has been replaced with Segoe MDL2 Assets font. I confirmed that I have this font as well.
In reply to Unfortunately, it's different by marty strasinger
Check to be sure you don't have an older version of FreeSerif installed. Ideally, it shouldn't be installed at all, so MuseScore can use its own internal version. But if you do have it installed, it has to be a version that includes those characters.
In reply to Check to be sure you don't by Marc Sabatella
There's no FreeSerif installed in my C:\Windows\Fonts folder (which is where all the other Windows fonts are located).
I updated from MS 2.02 to 2.03 a week or so after it was available; is there a way to confirm that MuseScore's FreeSerif is the latest and/or not corrupted?
In reply to There's no FreeSerif by marty strasinger
MuseScore's version is compiled into the application itself; there should be no way it could b anything but correct. But sure what is going won't in your system.
In reply to MuseScore's version is by Marc Sabatella
Problem resolved.
On another windows 10 pc with musescore 2.03, I confirmed Latin Extended A is good- no rectangles, just proper characters.
I copied/pasted all the fonts from that pc over the fonts in the problem pc, rebooted, problem fixed.
If mine is the only request in the history of musescore for the circumflex w & y, I leave it to the programmers to decide if it's worth adding them to the Common Symbols tab.
In reply to Problem resolved. On another by marty strasinger
Glad you solved. While developers consider your suggestion perhaps you can add them to a custom workspace.
Regards.