Tempo Primo

[peterqd]

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

[miker]

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.

[Peter Thomsen]

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

[miker]

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.

[Peter Thomsen]

...There is also a feminine ordinal indicator, an a with a line under it, in slot 170, for something like prima ballerina, I guess.

Or for something like "come prima volta".

[peterqd]

I am in awe...

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.

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.