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Posted By : kerbstomp41 - 11/18/2016 11:07 PM

I'm writing a song with lyrics in French, so I need some of the accented/special characters. To complicate things, I'm using the JazzText font; I tried copying and pasting the é character, but it displayed as a capital R with a box around it. I also tried using the French keyboard on my computer, but it shows up as the same thing.

So I have 2 main questions:

1. Does the JazzText font support other languages besides English?
2. If not, any suggestions for accent marks/special characters? So far, my only idea was to use a break mark and just move it to the lyric line.

Finale 2012c, Windows 10.

Thanks!!

Posted By : Zuill - 11/18/2016 11:30 PM

For the extra characters (with the marks) you need to use the Jazz Text Extended font.

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Posted By : kerbstomp41 - 11/20/2016 3:11 PM

Hmm, I tried that, but I ran into 2 issues:

1. I tried to get an accented E, but I only get an E with a ring over it, not an accent.
2. I also need a Ç, but that, as well as the apostrophe key, shows up as a rectangle box, the symbol for "this font doesn't recognize this symbol."

Any ideas?

Posted By : Zuill - 11/20/2016 9:53 PM

Both lower and upper case letters with the Jazz Text Extended font.

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