I can enter music symbols in many other apps, but have not figured out how to enter them in Scrivener. For example, in Scrivener, ALT + 9837 does not produce the symbol for flat. Am I missing something?
Hi
If you insert those a lot and copy/pasting each time isn’t convenient, you could set substitutions for the symbols you need in the options.
You could even use the code you already know for it.
9837 = ♭ (Just don’t use the alt key.)
(Aside form that, Why it doesn’t work? I don’t know.)
Thank you Vincent. This morning I discovered that I could copy the text from Word and paste it into Scrivener and it appeared as it should. Which is better than not being able to get the characters input at all. But if the Scrivener programmers have decided to reserve some of the standard Alt codes for other purposes, would that mean that my copy and pasted flat and sharp symbols could some day be unknowingly transformed into something else? But I have to say, pasting the symbols into autocorrections works pretty sweet! Faster and easier than typing Alt codes. Thank you.
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No. Not a chance.
Glad I could help.
Well, they could be transformed into music some day. 
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The way to type it in Windows is 9837, then Alt+X, although in that instance it gives you 頷.
But, for instance 24B6 and Alt+X gives you Ⓐ, 24B7 and Alt+X gives you Ⓑ, 24B8 and Alt+X gives you Ⓒ, etc.
It works in Word, Notepad, Sticky Notes, though the feature is ignored by Scrivener, but can easily be copied and pasted into Scrivener from elsewhere in Windows.
… because by using Alt-X you are asking to treat 9837 as a hexadecimal value.
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