Once you display the Character Palette, you can From then on, while in any application, you can choose 'Show Character Palette' from the Input menu on the right of your menu bar (next to the clock). Check 'Character Palette' and 'Show input menu in menu bar'. To make it available in any program, go to System Preferences -> International -> Input Menu.In programs like Safari and TextEdit, choose Edit -> Special Characters.In the last 3 days there were 0 new threads and 0 reply posts.If you want to insert the few most-common musical symbols into text, such as putting a flat sign ♭ in the middle of a sentence, you can use the Mac OS X Character Palette, a window that lets you select symbols and special characters visually. There are a total of 403,820 posts in 58,165 threads. 'As a musician, he's a damn fine woodworker.'Ĭurrently it is Monday, Septem9:18 PM (GMT -5) That's my system, and I'm stickin' to it.įavorite reference: Essential Dictionary of Music Notation, Gerou & Lusk, 1996 WebMaster and bass for the Seattle SeaChordsmen Bass for What's Cookin' FINALE TIPS at Print Music 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 Finale 2010b, 2011 In chords, though, a lowercase b entered anywhere except the first character is always going to be a flat symbol. In a text function, sometimes (to paraphrase Dr.

'Never take life seriously no-one gets out alive anyway.' Unless I'm misunderstanding, it seems bizarre to me that most text functions in Finale will allow you to use text inserts (or Ctrl-Shift-F) to create a flat sign, but not the Chord Tool. 'Score till you're sore and can score no more'. It could have been worse-as in German nomenclature (Bb = B, B natural = H). Maybe you should look at the tutorials to learn the basics of Finale. Maybe you should look at the tutorials to learn the basics of Finale.įinale (2011 to be installed), 2010b, 2009b, 2008b on a MacG5 2x2,5 Gh (4,5 Go RAM) and MacOsX 10.5.8, French azerty kb, Dolet 5.3. What do you type to type in a flat for, example a b flat chord.

Typinqg in a chord, I can't type in a flat symbol as it is not on the qwerty keyboard (the # is using shift 3). MakeMusic Forum > Public Forums > Finale - Windows - FORUM HAS MOVED! > Typing the flat symbol

How to type a flat symbol