Does anyone know how to create the abbreviated Primo sign? It looks like this: I° but with a short line below the circle. I found a small circle in the Maestro Times font for Symbols, but it's not the ideal shape and it doesn't have the line. Thanks for any suggestions.
Peter
Tempo Primo
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Peter,
Why not create it as an expression in the the Shape Designer? Start with the text I, and add the circle and the line with the drawing tool.
Why not create it as an expression in the the Shape Designer? Start with the text I, and add the circle and the line with the drawing tool.
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You can write Tempo 1º in most text fonts - the abbreviation 1º is not used solely in music notation.
The small superscript 'o' is a special font character.
Mac text fonts have the glyph located in slot #188.
I don't know, in which slot Windows text fonts have the glyph.
You should be able to find the glyph via Finale's Symbol Selection dialog box.
However, not all fonts have a short line below the small superscript 'o'.
Some fonts that do have the short line included in the glyph:
American Typewriter
Baskerville Old Face
Batang
Bauhaus 93
Capitals
Casual
Chalkboard
Copperplate Gothic
Courier
Eurostile
Gulim
Harrington
Humana Serif
Microsoft Sans Serif
Mistral
Skia
Stencil
The small superscript 'o' is a special font character.
Mac text fonts have the glyph located in slot #188.
I don't know, in which slot Windows text fonts have the glyph.
You should be able to find the glyph via Finale's Symbol Selection dialog box.
However, not all fonts have a short line below the small superscript 'o'.
Some fonts that do have the short line included in the glyph:
American Typewriter
Baskerville Old Face
Batang
Bauhaus 93
Capitals
Casual
Chalkboard
Copperplate Gothic
Courier
Eurostile
Gulim
Harrington
Humana Serif
Microsoft Sans Serif
Mistral
Skia
Stencil
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Peter,
How do you know all this stuff? Again, I am in awe...
Peterqd,
In Baskerville Old Face for Windows, it's slot 186.
A further note: The glyph is called the masculine ordinal indicator (as in tempo primo). There is also a feminine ordinal indicator, an a with a line under it, in slot 170, for something like prima ballerina, I guess.
How do you know all this stuff? Again, I am in awe...
Peterqd,
In Baskerville Old Face for Windows, it's slot 186.
A further note: The glyph is called the masculine ordinal indicator (as in tempo primo). There is also a feminine ordinal indicator, an a with a line under it, in slot 170, for something like prima ballerina, I guess.
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Or for something like "come prima volta".miker wrote:...There is also a feminine ordinal indicator, an a with a line under it, in slot 170, for something like prima ballerina, I guess.
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So am I, thank you very much indeed Peter. I looked at lots of fonts with the Windows Character Map but I was looking at the small circle character (as in degrees C) so I couldn't find see what I needed. I was on the point of using a font editor to create a new glyph.miker wrote:I am in awe...
Yes, it's for a "Tempo Primo" marking. I'm transposing a part in a 3-movement piece and I want the appearance of the new part to be as close as possible to the original. The text font I'm using is Maestro Times, but the Alt-0186 character is a bracket, and the Times New Roman character is a circle with no line. In your list, the Baskerville Old Face character is a little too heavy, but Baskerville Normal is just perfect!
Thanks also for your help Mike.