Re: How to display symbolic fonts

From:

"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:06:04 GMT

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"juergen" <ffm1234@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:1156277413.801394.285350@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

Hi,
I want to write an application displaying musical symbols. I am using a
ttf-Font: fughetta.ttf (http://www.efn.org/~bch/fullpackage.html).
Programming with C in linux works, using

gdk_font_load(-altsys-fughetta-medium-r-normal-*-*-320-*-*-p-*-*-symbol)

With Java, I put the ttf font in the jre/lib/fonts directory and edited
the font.dir file.
I used the Font.createFont() command.
But the symbols don't show. Neither are they displayed by other Java
programs (Opcion).
Ideas??
Thanks a lot, Juergen

    Rather than expect the end user to always copy the font to the
appropriate directory and editing their font.dir file, consider using the
createFont() method to dynamically load a font at runtime:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/awt/Font.html#createFont(int,
java.io.File)

    Additionally, rather than using a special font that maps musical symbols
to other characters, consider using the Unicode characters specifically
designed for this purpose:

Western Musical Symbols: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf
Byzantine Musical Symbols: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D000.pdf
Ancient Greek Musical Symbols: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D200.pdf

    - Oliver