README for MusiQwik and MusiQwikB, version 3.41:

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Free public license. May be freely redistributed. These fonts are offered AS-IS with NO WARRANTY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED and no support. USER ACCEPTS ALL RISK OF USE.

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MusiQwik is a special-purpose music notation font that may be used in word processing documents or web pages. Be sure that you embed the font in your documents or re-distribute the font to those who wish to see your music.

This is MusiQwik version 3.41. If you already have an older version installed, first remove it, then install this font. There are some small dimensional changes to the characters. This should not affect existing documents, unless layout was very precise. Version 3.41 also fixes an obscure code that might, under some circumstances, lead a program to classify it as an Asian-language font.

MusicQwik is best used with a 16-column character map. There are free utilities for this purpose, such as "Typecase" for Windows, by Anthony Appleyard, available from sources such as www.simtel.net.

The font includes clefs, time signatures, key signatures, and a number of other staff symbols. It also includes elements for constructing notes from 1/1 to 1/8 duration, with or without accidental or dot, from pitch two ledger lines below the staff to one ledger line above it. This is sufficient for depicting the melodies of most popular songs and church hymns. The companion font, MusiQwikB, contains 1/16 notes instead of 1/8 notes.

Notes are organized by column, according to pitch. If your note is modified by an accidental or dot, select the modifier from the same column.

Fermatas and ties are designed to overhang the following symbol or symbols. In version 3.3 of this font, these were "zero cursor width" symbols that confused some applications. This version assigns a nonzero cursor width. You may use the hyphen (-) key to insert a tiny segment of staff, if alignment of the notes is important. Regular sections of staff are inserted using the equal (=) key.

If you are using this font in web pages or tables, be sure that word wrapping is turned off, or you staffs will break in unexpected locations.

This font looks best at 24 point size.

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If you are using MusiQwik in your web pages, be sure to redistribute the font. You may do so directly from your own web site as a download. Put the fonts in a ZIP archive file, because browsers may not be able to download True Type fonts without error.

If you are using MusiQwik with lyrics, then you will need to use the equal (=) sign in Musiqwik to insert staff segments, and the non-breaking space character (code decimal 160, HTML code &nbsp;) in the lyrics. If you attempt to space the lyrics with ordinary spaces, the broswer will remove excess spaces when the page is displayed.

For an example, see the web page "A-Mighty-Fortress.htm" included in the font package. You must first install the fonts.

You can also present your music as a graphic image in GIF format.

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