I am looking for a way to put segmentation marks in a musicXML file, which can be read by software such as musescore.
Perhaps a large vertical line or a label above a note?
Any ideas on how to mark a note in a simple way?
I can write a lyric text. But it would be awesome to mark it like this:
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I am looking for a single symbol/letter to represent a data source in text of an HTML page (or Markdown).
I would like to use the cylinder shape has usual for a database.
Maybe I am not searching for the right word, but I am not figuring out any Unicode for a cylinder or something similar.
Is there a Unicode Character for a cylinder?
There’s U+26C1 WHITE DRAUGHTS KING ⛁ and U+26C3 BLACK DRAUGHTS KING ⛃, which are similar visually if not semantically.
I tend to (mis)use 🛢 (Oil drum) \x1F6E2, since I have more databases than oil drums. (See Unicode.org )
There's a file cabinet U+1F5C4. 🗄
And a card file box and card file index. 🗃🗂
You can also use a square shape to represent a database (looks like a server farm):
▤ Square with Horizontal Fill (U+25A4)
⌸ Apl Functional Symbol Quad Equal (U+2338)
Look at this UILabel. It's center-aligned:
Now look at this UILabel. Although it is technically center-aligned, it really doesn't look that way:
The reason why it looks like this is because the center-alignment considers the degree symbol a third character, thus bumping the other two off to the left a bit. My question is: is there any way to ignore certain characters whilst center-aligning a label?
Interesting question. The only solution that comes to mind for me is to pad the text string with spaces on the front to cancel out the ignored characters on the back.
That is, to center #"60d" as if it were #"60", set the text to #" 60d". This works well with a fixed width font, but otherwise is only a rough approximation.
If you like this idea and want to get fancy with it, then you can use NSStrings method
– stringByPaddingToLength:withString:startingAtIndex:
perhaps in conjunction with – rangeOfCharacterFromSet: or some such method to determine how many spaces to pad with.
You could of course measure the text string(s) and compute your own positioning, rather than using text alignment in a larger field.
Assuming you don't want to do that, another idea that comes to mind is to display the string “°60°” with the first character styled with a color of opacity 0 and no shadow.
I don't do iOS development so I don't know how practical these are.
I'm looking for a font which contains a graphic character which is (essentially), the space character, inverted. I'm looking for a graphic character equivalent to the largest-possible solid-black box. The closest I have been able to find is Wingings 2 character 162, but that doesn't fill the entire available character space. When I insert two consecutive Wingdings 2 162 characters, there is still appreciable whitespace between them when displayed or printed. Does anyone know of a black-box font/character which would fill all available character space?
All characters are going to have whitespace between them, or they would be unreadable. This is called "kerning". You can adjust the kerning and line-height in whatever program you are using to send the malicious fax, if you want to be sure to use the maximum amount of toner per page.
Have you considered creating your own font using a software package like this or like this? You could edit the space character to be a solid black square. But as Chris McCall mentioned, you may still have space between characters of any size due to kerning applied by the layout engine that draws the fonts.
You other option is to owner draw your own text and programmatically replacing spaces with black boxes. You would have complete control over kerning and everything else.
I don't know if this is exactly what you were looking for, but...
I was looking for the same thing, since I wanted to create a "textbox" when I wanted to write text using the spritefont, but I never knew how long the total string was going to be, so I wanted something that I could "write" in the same location right before the string with a contrasting color which could be expected to be as long as the string it needed to encompass. That being the case, try:
Webdings - character 103.
I tried lining them up and there wasn't even any space in between. Perfect.
I'm using Beyond compare to Diff HTML/PHP files between a windows PC and a Linux box. I want to compare file contents.
I can't figure out how to get it to ignore white space (line spaces or space at the start/end of lines).
I'm sure this should be doable, right?
Try setting your file format and turning on the Ignore Unimportant Differences option:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=4067
If that doesn't work for you you might want to take a look at WinMerge as a free alternative: http://winmerge.org/
I have a label and I wish to increase the spacing between characters.
I tried adding a space between each character, but this was too much
Perhaps there is a font with large spacing between the letters?
If all else fails, I am considering putting each character (only a size character code), into its own textbox.
Any ideas on how to achieve this?
There is a way to insert a half space, but I don't recall the exact command (option-spacebar?). Wikipedia has a complete list of spaces you can use.
Another approach would be a UIWebView with the letter-spacing CSS attribute set.
You're better off creating a custom view and using your drawRect routine to draw the text manually. You can use CFAttributedString to hold your text along with kerning information.
Update: sounds like you can't actually use CFAttributedString to draw text on the iPhone. You can still use your drawRect to draw the customized text, but it will take some more work to actually get your custom kerning to work.