Useful fonts

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All fonts freeware to best of my knowledge. If not, tell me and I'll remove the offending font.

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Multilingual characters
Chinese characters

1. Four useful home-compiled fonts

Description                     Character sample                   Info & download
Instructions for • Windows • Mac

Basic rhythm and metre plus all lead-sheet chord symbols for direct inclusion in text documents with normal line spacing. Full functionality requires word processor with sub- and superscript options. All symbols mapped to single-stroke keys on UK or US keyboard.
sample

XPTmusic.ttf

• DOWNLOAD
THIS FONT
• keyboard layout
and examples

All the basic symbols for standard English, French and Swedish phonemes.
The text in the middle column reads: 'När sjuksköterskan var färdig med son travail she descendait au garage for a quick smoke'.
sample

XPTphonetic.ttf

• DOWNLOAD
THIS FONT
• keyboard layout
• complete table

Symbols that save space in listings of audio- and audiovisual references (composer, film company & director, cover version, performer, vocalist, conductor, disc, tape, DVD, VHS, TV, off-air, etc.), and more...
sample

XPTSymbols1.ttf

• DOWNLOAD
THIS FONT
• keyboard layout
• info

This single font contains nearly all the symbols in all the three fonts above, but you'll need to change keyboard layout to take advantage of it.
sample

taggdings.ttf
2011-01-14

• info & download

 
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Assorted music fonts [MusText.zip]

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Assorted symbol fonts

animals, arrows, computer, electronic, geographic, hazards, military, morse, people, plants, shapes, signs, sports, stars, tools, transport, weather, etc.

translit98i, translit98, translit98b, translit98n (all ttf)

Instructions • Windows • Mac

Windows download and install procedure using XPTMusic.ttf as an example

  1. Close your word processing software (e.g. Word) if it is running.
  2. In the list of fonts, shown above on this page, select DOWNLOAD THIS FONT in the right column under XPTMusic.TTF
    This will download the file XPTMusic.zip to your computer
  3. Unzip the files XPTMusic.TTF and XPTMusic.PDF and save them to a folder where you'll easily find them.
  4. Using My Computer, open folder C:\WINDOWS\Fonts
  5. Select File -> Install new font
  6. Navigate to wherever you put XPTMusic.TTF under §3 and Select XPTMusic.ttf
  7. Click OK
  8. Open XPTMusic.PDF so you have the keyboard map to hand.
  9. Open your word processing software and start a new document.
  10. Using the keyboard map as a guide, type in the symbols you want to produce, e.g. [ r l l. zil;l. zil_l ]
  11. Select that text ( [ r l l. zil;l. zil_l ])
  12. Format that text using the font XPTMusic. That should show

Mac download and install procedure using XPTMusic.ttf as an example

  1. Close your word processing software (e.g. Word, Pages) if it is running.
  2. In the list of fonts, shown above on this page, select DOWNLOAD THIS FONT in the right column under XPTMusic.TTF
    This will download the file XPTMusic.zip to your computer.
  3. In the download window select XPTMusic.ttf or scroll down in the list of fonts to where, alphabetically, XPTMusic should be.
    You will probably see the following symbols at that point in the font list: . If so, click on those symbols.
  4. On your Mac, go to System Preferences
  5. Select International
  6. Select Input Menu
  7. Check that Keyboard Viewer is On
  8. Check that Show Input Menu in Menu Bar is On
    An icon showing your keyboard nationality appears top right.
  9. Click nationality icon
  10. In drop down, click Show Keyboard Viewer
  11. Select XPTMusic font.
    Keyboard map appears showing where symbols are on your keyboard.
  12. Either select characters in Mac keyboard map or type in standard keyboard equivalents using XPTMusic.pdf as a guide.

 

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