![]() ![]() ![]() Here's a sample document with some different ways of handling the chords: You can find what fonts contain these characters here, e.g. However, this method does allow you to use a character style on the chords, since you only need to specify the text font in the style, and OOo will substitute the font needed for the symbols. I'm not sure what the best approach is beyond that.Īll this really does is to pull the symbols from a font that doesn't use the extra-tall leading, which you could also do by simply specifying the font that OOo substitutes (I don't know how to find what font that is, BTW). For Windows, you can find some ideas here: Typing Special Characters, but that relies on the Insert > Special Character dialog. The OOo Insert > Special Character dialog is no help: it can't find the symbols at all. For OOo under Linux, I can just enter the hex codes, or copy/paste from the system character map. One hitch with this strategy is how to enter the characters. Music_symbols.png (10.89 KiB) Viewed 6725 times Is there a way to accomplish what I want to do in OOo Writer? Since I am mixing fonts (Century Schoolbook and MusicalSymbols), I can't define a single style for the chord descriptor characters, or at least I don't know how to do that. If a line does not use those symbols, spacing is correct. No matter how I try to alter the character position attributes of the symbols, the line spacing of the song text is not altered. I can insert these characters (symbols) in the appropriate place, but the line spacing of the text is almost double the 1.5 line spacing indicated in the song style even though the symbols are the same height as the other chord characters. Since the flat and sharp symbols are not a part of the Century Schoolbook font, I use a TT font called MusicalSymbols for those two characters. The style is defined to use Century Schoolbook 14 point positioned as a superscript. I would represent that as a sequence of letters: D,the music flat symbol, m, 7. As an example, I may have a D Flat Minor 7th chord. Everything works fine until I have to use a flat ot sharp symbol in the chord designation. I defined a character style for the chords so that they would be printed as a superscript. I am not trying to use a music staff, just the lyrics with chord insterted where applicable. I am trying to document some songs and their guitar chords. ![]()
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