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Hungarian boxes

Three years ago, I posted to the old forum asking if anyone knew of a way to insert into a NoteWorthy file (or even a word processor file, come to that) the symbols used by Hungarian musicologists to designate the phrase finals of songs.

These symbols are boxed numerals, but the boxed numerals found in some fonts won't do, because we need the following features for the Magyar system:

1) The box must contain any Arabic numeral from 1 to 7, or any Roman numeral from I to VII (and let's make that VIII, just in case).

2) It must allow the numeral to be preceded by a sharp or flat--for my purposes, a normal sharp or flat or one of those found in, for example, Ertughrul's excellent font of symbols for microtonic intervals.

3) There must be the option of a closed, four-sided box; or a box with one side removed (and to accommodate the several styles in actual use, any of the four sides must be removable); or a double closed box.

Someone--Randy?--mentioned that he was working on a font that might serve this purpose, but I haven't heard anything further about this.

In any case, since we now have a shining new forum, I thought I would post this again and see if something new has happened in the last three years.

Stephen

Re: Hungarian boxes

Reply #1 –
G'day Stephen,
I wonder if you could draw me some examples and post a tif or jpg of it?

Also if you could include all the sharps and flats that you might need - I'm aware that there are far more of these than used by most western music...

Would this font also need more normal characters - a to z, A to Z, / ? _ - = + &etc. or could it be a specialist font like Boxmarks (which can almost do it now, it just dosen't have the separate V and I or the ability to remove either the top or the bottom of the box)?

The reason I ask is that I have a couple of fonts that are almost there from your description but which would need tweaking and possibly the extra sharps and flats.

Another thing is would you prefer:
a) a handwritten style like my SwingDings font (see http://nwc-scriptorium.org/helpful.html#Fonts and select the SwingDings link),
b) a sans serif font like Arial, or
c) a serif font like Times New Roman

I can't guarantee a time frame - business is picking up and I'm quite busy, plus I'll be going on hoilidays soon...
I plays 'Bones, crumpets, coronets, floosgals, youfonymums 'n tubies.

Re: Hungarian boxes

Reply #2 –
G'day to you, Lawrie. It will be easier for me to send you this stuff by Snail Mail. E-mail me off list and we'll figure out how to do this and get all your questions answered. I'm just delighted that you are willing to look intl this; if I were in a hurry I would have a real problem, but I don't want that, so I will be happy to have this whenever it comes!

stephen_r1937@yahoo.com