musical thoughts

Here’s a couple tricks I’ve found that make certain posts a bit more readable on this blog. I have a couple more in the works that involve a bit of programming.

Update: of course they don’t work in IE!!!

The HTML entities (secret codes to make the browser display a character) for flat, natural, and sharp signs are:

The little note signs I use as bullets around the site are also HTML entities:

8709 looks a bit like a half-diminished symbol: E∅7

Right now, I have some doubts about various browsers’ ability to “do the right thing” with these, since they are undocumented. I’d hate to rely on them too heavily, only to find out it messes up for some of the readers. So I’m going to stick with less ambiguous stuff, like # for sharp and b for flat, and Emi7b5 for half-diminished, okay?