Regarding the use of the Shakukana font:
I sometimes use a flowcharting program with the Shakukana font, and I find that it helps
to use the Windows 'On-Screen Keyboard', found in the Accessories\Accessability entry in
the Programs list. Then you can always see which characters are connected to which keys.
I find the Shakukana font useful but a bit frustrating, because it doesn't have a few of
the characters that I often want, like beat marks. Also, the numbers are huge, so I have
to reduce their size in order to indicate ornaments, and then they sit at the bottom of
the symbol I have placed them next to, which looks wrong.
If there still is no good software for shakuhachi notation by the time I retire, I am
going to write something myself and donate it to the shakuhachi community. There must be
some better way to do this than placing each little symbol separately!
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