How to add fonts to Windows Explorer

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I want to add the sheet music Flat sign (looks like a lower case b) for music notation so I can name music files properly. The
sharp sign is # so that is taken care of. How can I add a font or a font character to Windows Explorer?
 
Will said:
I want to add the sheet music Flat sign (looks like a lower case b) for
music notation so I can name music files properly. The sharp sign is # so
that is taken care of. How can I add a font or a font character to
Windows Explorer?
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Don't know that you can but be really careful when using special characters
in file names. If you use a special character in one operating system it
may not be as welcome in another operating system later down the road.
Also, if you are able to somehow use the special character in a font other
than the standard one in Explorer if the file is transferred to another
computer and the computer has not been set up exactly the same way then the
file may be unusable.

Always safer to stick with the defaults in an OS when you are naming files
and folders.
 
Why not use a lower case B? Why? Because, you don't ADD fonts to Windows
Explorer you add them to the system, AND if you change the default font
and use that musical character set, the file name wouldn't display
correctly anyplace else anyway.
 
you can either buy the fonts
for music and install them
via the fonts control panel

or you can make your own
fonts via a font making software

however, if I'm not mistake the
font "bookshelf symbols" has
some musican notes / symbols.

try installing a free "font viewer"
which will help you to browse
the fonts you have.


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db said:
you can either buy the fonts
for music and install them
via the fonts control panel

or you can make your own
fonts via a font making software

however, if I'm not mistake the
font "bookshelf symbols" has
some musican notes / symbols.

try installing a free "font viewer"
which will help you to browse
the fonts you have.


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db, the OP wanted to use the music symbol as part of the filename (at least
as I read the post.) That would be a bad idea.
 
ok, thanks.

I have seen music symbols in the
nntp but I have never looked into
them.

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I want to add the sheet music Flat sign (looks like a lower case b)
I agree that it is a bad idea, but if a lower case b won't do, try
alt+0254 as a possible alternative.
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Doesn't do anything on my machine. Nothing is displayed.
I think, but I'm not sure, that this
is the Old English "thorn". I tried it in TNR and Arial and its main
asset is that it doesn't look like an lc b; its main drawback is that
nobody else would know what it meant. Why not just spell out "Eflat" or
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Well I'm trying to keep file names as short as possible. Like this:
Symphony Op1.#1.C+.flac
Also since I already have a symbol for sharp (#) its only fitting to have a symbol for flat (b - but looking a little different).
 
Will said:
Doesn't do anything on my machine. Nothing is displayed.

Well I'm trying to keep file names as short as possible. Like this:
Symphony Op1.#1.C+.flac
Also since I already have a symbol for sharp (#) its only fitting to have
a symbol for flat (b - but looking a little different).
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The "sharp" symbol you are talking about, located on the keyboard as # is
generally used as an abbreviation for the word number. That is the reason
it is placed in the default font for Windows which in Vista is Microsoft
Sans Serif and in XP is Tahoma. If you start to change the default fonts
for the desktop (which also changes the fonts used in Windows Explorer) you
are really asking for issues with the display on your computer. And as I
said before, if you do change the default fonts then they would not show on
any other computer properly anyhow and could make the file unusable on
another computer and even go so far as to crash the computer (even though
this would be a really bizarre outcome.)
 
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