• test of symbols on Usenet

    From Matt Faunce@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 9 03:10:38 2021
    D♭ D♯ D♮
    ♩= 120

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    Matt

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  • From Matt Faunce@21:1/5 to Matt Faunce on Fri Apr 9 03:15:55 2021
    Matt Faunce <mattfaunce@gmail.com> wrote:
    D♭ D♯ D♮
    ♩= 120


    Ahhh. The natural and flat symbols were closer to the letter D before I
    sent it, and they were slightly superscripted.

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    Matt

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  • From Ken Blake@21:1/5 to Matt Faunce on Fri Apr 9 08:45:06 2021
    On 4/8/2021 8:10 PM, Matt Faunce wrote:
    D♭ D♯ D♮
    ♩= 120



    I'm using Thunderbird and those symbols look fine here. But be aware
    that some newsreaders don't show all symbols. I switched from Agent to Thunderbird about a year ago primarily so I could see symbols some
    people posted.


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  • From Matt Faunce@21:1/5 to Ken Blake on Fri Apr 9 22:55:17 2021
    Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> wrote:
    On 4/8/2021 8:10 PM, Matt Faunce wrote:
    D♭ D♯ D♮
    ♩= 120



    I'm using Thunderbird and those symbols look fine here. But be aware
    that some newsreaders don't show all symbols. I switched from Agent to Thunderbird about a year ago primarily so I could see symbols some
    people posted.



    Thanks, Ken. I’m not sure where the causes of garbling might be so I
    checked my post first by Eternal-September → NewsTap → iPhone, then Google Groups → Safari → iPhone, and they come across acceptably via both paths.

    → is another symbol, for –>

    Back in the 1990s it was common to use a double dash in place of an em
    dash, but I see em dashes fine now. In fact, NewsTap won’t allow me to
    write a double dash; it automatically turns it into an em dash.

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    Matt

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  • From Gerry@21:1/5 to Matt Faunce on Fri Apr 9 22:49:41 2021
    On 2021-04-09 03:15:55 +0000, Matt Faunce said:

    Matt Faunce <mattfaunce@gmail.com> wrote:
    D♭ D♯ D♮
    ♩= 120


    Ahhh. The natural and flat symbols were closer to the letter D before I
    sent it, and they were slightly superscripted.

    The font elements are there, but you can control kerning or
    sub/super-script. Still useful!

    FYI, I just pasted your items above into Facebook post to see how they
    look, and that spacing between the note and the symbols has disappeared.

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