Anastasia - Windows keyboard chart

[Doug Kerr]

From time to time we may want to use musical symbols from the Anastasia typeface ("font") in illustrations, text documents, and the like.

I'm sure there are many charts around that show how to access these characters from the keyboard in Windows, but I didn't have one, so I made one.

I thought I would make mine available here for those who may not already have one.

At this point it covers what are probably the most important characters. I will add more as time permits and reissue it.

Note of course that because of the specialized metrics of these characters (as needed for their "day job"), there can be many challenges regarding character vertical position, line height, and so forth in using these in documents.

Best regards,

Doug

[Denkster]

I posted the pdf's of ALL characters of ALL fonts months ago..

[Doug Kerr]

I posted the pdf's of ALL characters of ALL fonts months ago..

I figgered. Can you give me a link?

Thanks.

Best regards,

Doug

[q]

From time to time we may want to use musical symbols from the Anastasia typeface ("font") in illustrations, text documents, and the like.

I'm sure there are many charts around that show how to access these characters from the keyboard in Windows, but I didn't have one, so I made one.

I thought I would make mine available here for those who may not already have one.

Here's a normal lookup chart I made a couple of years ago.

http://www.theoreticallycorrect.com/Music-Notation-Software/Music-Notation-Fonts/Anastasia-font/index.html

... and here's Anastasia mapped to a U.S. QWERTY Macintosh keyboard, with no modifier key, with the shift key, and with the option key. The rectangle appears where no glyph is available:







q

[q]

 
This approach might be useful too, where the Anastasia symbols are grouped 'logically' by type (entirely subjective):



q

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, q,

All very nice. Thanks.

Best regards,

Doug

[Doug Kerr]

Here's a normal lookup chart I made a couple of years ago.

I note that the, above the character code 127 (decimal), the character set on this chart does correspond to the Windows version of Anastasia (at least the one I have), either in glyph repertoire nor (where the glyphs match) in encoding.

As an editorial comment, to speak of the "ASCII encoding number " for code values above 127 is not really apt. There are no characters in ASCII with codes greater than 127 (decimal). Just "decimal code value" would be fine.

In Windows systems, there are two schemes of entering characters not found on the keyboard (i.e., those with codes greater than 127, and which are not in ASCII proper) with the use of the Alt key and the numeric cluster. One is called "entry of ASCII codes" and one is called "entry of ANSI codes". Both are misnomers.

In a Windows system, to summon the character whose code in the (Windows) font of interest is 178 (decimal), for example, one would use Alt+0178. The leading zero is a clue to the O/S that the numeric value entered is in fact the code for the character wanted. (Why might it not be? Read on.) This is spoken of (inexplicably and without any justification) as the "ANSI code entry", and those numbers (with the leading zero) are (inexplicably) spoken of as the "ANSI codes" for the characters.

If we keyed Alt+178, we would not get the character whose code in the Windows character set is 178, but rather the character in the Windows character set whose glyph (in the basic Windows character set) was assigned code 178 in the "extended ASCII" character set used in DOS (but not in Windows). This was too allow people used to a certain keyboard entry for an extended character in DOS to use the same entry in Windows, to the extent that the characters were available in both sets. This is spoken of (inexplicably) as "ASCII code entry", and those numbers are (inexplicably) spoken of as the "ASCII codes for the characters.

If we were to enter characters with codes not over 127 (characters included in ASCII proper) in this mode, we can use either form. In fact, for the character whose code (in ASCII, and in the DOS extended ASCII character sets, and in the Windows character sets, is 78 , which is the character "N"), we can enter Alt+78, Alt+078, Alt+0078, or (if we are trying to prove a point), Alt+000078.

Aren't you glad you asked!

If a mood of masochism overtakes you and you would like to know more about this vary curious topic, this paper should tell you more than you care to know:

http://doug.kerr.home.att.net/pumpkin/ASCII_ANSI.pdf

Best regards,

Doug

[q]

Here's a normal lookup chart I made a couple of years ago.

I note that the, above the character code 127 (decimal), the character set on this chart does correspond to the Windows version of Anastasia (at least the one I have), either in glyph repertoire nor (where the glyphs match) in encoding.

Thanks. I had a suspicion that there were errors above 127, but I didn't know how extensive.

As an editorial comment, to speak of the "ASCII encoding number " for code values above 127 is not really apt. There are no characters in ASCII with codes greater than 127 (decimal). Just "decimal code value" would be fine.

I'll update to the chart to reflect this when I get a chance.

Thanks for the input below.

q

In Windows systems, there are two schemes of entering characters not found on the keyboard (i.e., those with codes greater than 127, and which are not in ASCII proper) with the use of the Alt key and the numeric cluster. One is called "entry of ASCII codes" and one is called "entry of ANSI codes". Both are misnomers.

In a Windows system, to summon the character whose code in the (Windows) font of interest is 178 (decimal), for example, one would use Alt+0178. The leading zero is a clue to the O/S that the numeric value entered is in fact the code for the character wanted. (Why might it not be? Read on.) This is spoken of (inexplicably and without any justification) as the "ANSI code entry", and those numbers (with the leading zero) are (inexplicably) spoken of as the "ANSI codes" for the characters.

If we keyed Alt+178, we would not get the character whose code in the Windows character set is 178, but rather the character in the Windows character set whose glyph (in the basic Windows character set) was assigned code 178 in the "extended ASCII" character set used in DOS (but not in Windows). This was too allow people used to a certain keyboard entry for an extended character in DOS to use the same entry in Windows, to the extent that the characters were available in both sets. This is spoken of (inexplicably) as "ASCII code entry", and those numbers are (inexplicably) spoken of as the "ASCII codes for the characters.

If we were to enter characters with codes not over 127 (characters included in ASCII proper) in this mode, we can use either form. In fact, for the character whose code (in ASCII, and in the DOS extended ASCII character sets, and in the Windows character sets, is 78 , which is the character "N"), we can enter Alt+78, Alt+078, Alt+0078, or (if we are trying to prove a point), Alt+000078.

Aren't you glad you asked!

If a mood of masochism overtakes you and you would like to know more about this vary curious topic, this paper should tell you more than you care to know:

http://doug.kerr.home.att.net/pumpkin/ASCII_ANSI.pdf

[Denkster]

I posted the pdf's of ALL characters of ALL fonts months ago..

I figgered. Can you give me a link?

Thanks.

Best regards,

Doug

Here
Below an excerpt.
Note that character 221 of this font contains a swing symbol too, but it is placed too far right, thus is not visible in many strings.

Excerpt

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In the top left corner of each cell is a decimal number of a character.
In the top right corner of each cell is the character with that decimal number in the Arial font.
Centered in the lower part of the cell is the special character with that decimal number in the Encore font.
All characters can be entered using the ubiquitous Windows utility for entry of special characters.

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Eveline,

Here

Thank you so much.

Below an excerpt.

Ah, good old Anastasia Extended 1!

Note that character 221 of this font contains a swing symbol too, but it is placed too far right, thus is not visible in many strings.

Indeed. Curious.

All characters can be entered using the ubiquitous Windows utility for entry of special characters.

Thank you so much.

For the benefit of onlookers, I note that in using the "Alt+<numeric keyboard>" entry method, one must prefix a "0" to the three digit code proper as shown in Eveline's charts. This tells the O/S that you really mean that number as the code for the character you want! Otherwise, It will take the number as being the character you want described in terms of its code in the old DOS extended ASCII character set!

Thanks.

Best regards,

Doug

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Eveline,

Here

I just got a look at your Anastasia character coding tables. They are lovely. Thanks so much for doing this.

Best regards,

Doug

[Denkster]

Thank you, Doug,

I made these tables with WordPerfect X3.
The PDF's are encrypted, to prevent abuse of Nor's copyright, but you can read and print them nevertheless.

Please check if you can confirm the following (and maybe find more) peculiarities:

Anastasia
Version info missing
33, 127, 128, 129, 131, 213, 218, 219 (boxes?)

Anastasia Extended 1,
255 Anastasia Extended 1 Font Updated 04th Dec 2008
221 to far to the right
127- 159, 242 (boxes?)
160, 254 (empty?)

Anastasia Extended 2,
Version info missing
127- 159 (boxes?)
160, 254, 255 (empty?)

Anastasia Extra,
167: Anastasia Shapes Font Updated 06th Jan 2009
127- 159 172, 174 -255 (boxes?)
160, 254, 255 (empty?)

Anastasia Figured Bass
169: Anastasia Figured BassV1 Font Updated 19th November 2008
33 - 39, 42, 44 , 45, 46, 48, 58 - 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 103 - 107, 114, 116-118, 121,160, 173 (empty?)
123 - 159, 161 - 168, 170-255 (boxes?)

Anastasia Heavy,
33: Anastasia Heavy Font Updated 04th Dec 2008
127 - 129, 131, 160, 171, 173, 180, 182, 213, 218, 219, (boxes?)

Anastasia Pitch Names,
33: Date of release 3rd Jan 2009
34 - 43, 45, 47, 48, 58 -64, 91 - 97, 123 - 126, 130, 132 - 159, 161-170, 172-179, 181, 183-212, 214-217, 220-255 (empty?)
127 - 129, 131, 160, 171, 180, 182, 213, 218, 219 (boxes?)

Anastasia Rehearsals,
169: Anastasia Rehearsals Font, Updated 19th November 2008
73, 79, 80 to far to the right
33, 35-37, 41-44, 46, 47, 59, 60, 62, 63, 66, 70, 82, 84, 86, 89, 91-94, 96, 102-110, 112, 114-118, 121-126, 149, 153, 160, 163, 167, 168, 174, 176, 180 (empty?)
127-148, 161, 162, 164, 166, 170-172, 175, 177, 179, 181-223, 225-230, 234-255 (boxes?)

Anastasia Time,
Version info missing
47, 87, 227 (empty?)
33-46, 59-86, 88-226, 228-255 (boxes?)

Encore NorMusic,
Version info missing
33, 127-129, 131, 160, 171, 180, 182, 213, 218, 219 (boxes?)

Encore NorScript,
247: Encore NorScript Font Ver1 Date of release 19th November 2008
160, 181, 215 (empty?)
127-129, 131, 134, 135, 141, 143, 144, 157, 170, 172, 173, 186,(boxes?)

Encore Nor Script Bold,
247: Encore NorScript Bold Font Ver1 Date of release 19th November 2008
158 (empty?)
127-129, 131, 134, 135, 141, 143, 144, 157, 160, 170, 172, 173, 181, 186, (boxes?)

Encore Nor Script Cased,
247: Encore Nor Script Cased Font Ver1 Date of release 19th November 2008
160, 181, 182, 215 (empty?)
157, 170, 172, 173, 186, (boxes?)

Encore Nor Script Cased Oblique,
247: Encore Nor Script Cased Oblique Font Ver1 Date of release 19th November 2008
160, 181, 182, 215 (empty?)
127-129, 131, 134, 135, 141, 143, 144, 157, 170, 172, 173, 186, (boxes?)

Encore NorScript Oblique
247: Encore NorScript Oblique Font Ver1 Date of release 19th November 2008
160, 181 (empty?)
127-129, 131, 134, 135, 141, 143, 144, 157, 170, 172, 173, 186, (boxes?)

Encore NorScript Rehearsals
169: Encore NorScript Rehearsals Font, Updated 19th November 2008
39, 92, 94, to far left?
112, 114-118 width problem?
125, 160, (empty?)
126-159, 161- 165, 168, 170-175, 177-255 (boxes?)

Encore Nor Script Shadow
247: Encore Nor Script ShadowFont Ver1 Date of release 19th November 2008
127-129, 131, 134, 135, 141, 143, 144, 157, 160, 170, 172, 173, 181, 186, (boxes?)

Encore Nor Script Title
247: Encore Nor Script Title Font Ver1 Date of release 19th November 2008
160 (empty?)
141, 143, 144, 157, (boxes?)

Kind regards,
Eveline

[Nor]

charmap.exe is a Microsoft Windows utility which helps you locate non-standard characters such as foreign letter accents and even non-western letters. You Can locate the Charmap.exe File from this location File Path:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache\charmap.exe

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/charmap.html

I will check the fonts later...I'm having lot of troubles or the moment.