Using French lyrics alternately with English
I have MuseScore 9.6 running with Windows 7.
Is there a way, please, to use French text (with accents, of course)? I'm trying to prepare music with one verse in English and the next in French.
Thank you.
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I guess you are in the US and so don't have a keyboard with accents right? because with a french keyboard there is no problem ;)
When editing lyrics, you can press F2 to display a special character palette, the majority of french special signs should be there. You can also use Alt + "Code" to enter the accented letters.
In reply to I guess you are in the US and by [DELETED] 5
and use the character map of your system
In reply to and use the character map of by robert leleu
Special characters, to denote the Welsh for copyright. It is like an italics "h" with a ring around it. Is it possible to create one and place it amongst my special characters in Musescore, 1.2 version, on Windows XP pro?
Wena D Parry
In reply to .Special characters by Wena D Parry
I don't know of an easy way to create new characters, but if you know a font that has the characters you need, MuseScore is happy to let you set your text styles to that font.
In reply to .Special characters by Wena D Parry
You can copy paste this ⓗ or you can use Alt +24D7
See http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/24d7/index.htm
Windows and linux differ in their ability to type foreign characters and characters with accents. Linux doesn't allow the same [Alt]-0157 type codes that Windows does. US and UK (and other) keyboards differ in their ability to allow you to press certain keys. The [Alt Gr] key is very useful if you have one. I'm sure there's a way in the Mac, too, but I haven't used a Mac for ten years.
I use MS 1.2 on a system running ubuntu linux 12.04 and a UK keyboard layout and have collected a few accents and foreign characters. I attach a file of them and hope that this helps.
Accents etc. for many other languages can be generated at (and copied from) the following web site:
//norwegian.typeit.org/
Some lyrics from Meme Si...
Comment définir l'amour sans toi?
- press [Alt Gr], hold it and press ; then let go and type e to get é
Mais prêt à tous les sacrifices je refuse celui là
- press [Alt Gr], hold it and press # then let go and type a to get à
J'aurai voulu t'offrir le meilleur de tout mon être
- press [Alt Gr], hold it and press ' then let go and type e to get ê
'Cause these are the waters that I'm in.
I have an english keyboard, and write french lyrics very easily.
It's a keyboard setting in windows that you can switch back and forth. English/french and whatever language you install there.
Nothing to do with MuseScore