Better not try to play this

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If the playful, unplayable logo (font-size:9px) looked something like this,

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your browser is either unable or unwilling to display the font. musicalsymbols.ttf. If you can display that font, the rest of this is here. Otherwise, you might be able to get things to work better - but maybe not.

This should work on relatively new versions of Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer, on Mozilla-1.4 and Firefox-0.9, but not on Mozilla-1.7. With NN-4, Mz-1.7 and Opera, for example, I don't know how to get them to look for fonts that aren't on their lists of acceptable ones.

Here is a preliminary TeSt (TeSt): if neither of those were rendered as greek characters, your browser is unwilling, but possibly not unable to display the font, symbol.ttf. This font usually comes with the PC operating system, and the fixup, if you have symbol.ttf installed, is:

• Mozilla-1.4: Find - - - /Mozilla/res/fonts/fontEncoding. Open it with Notepad or another really plain editor. Near the top, change the line
  
  encoding.symbol.ttf = Adobe-Symbol-Encoding
  to
  # encoding.symbol.ttf = Adobe-Symbol-Encoding
  and add the line
  encoding.symbol.ttf = windows-1252
  Save it. Shut Mozilla down. Try again.
  
  
• Netscape-7: The file is in - - - /Netscape7/Netscape/res/fonts.
  
  
• Firefox-0.9: The file is in - - - /Mozilla Firefox/res/fonts.
  
  
• Explorer: Shouldn't be giving you problems.
  
  
• Not running Windows: Can't help you.
  
  
• Otherwise: Beats me.

The reason for saving the original "encoding.symbol.ttf ---" as a comment is so that the original encoding will be easy to restore after the test has succeeded or failed, as the case may be. If the test worked, then:

• Install musicalsymbols.ttf. The font can be found by googling musicalsymbols font download. It appears to be in the common domain, and it appears have been written by a person or persons unknown. Downloading and installing it is pretty easy , and it is the best music font I have found so far.
  
  
• Get back into --- /res/fonts/fontEncoding and add the line,
  encoding.musicalsymbols.ttf = windows-1252
  Save it. Shut Mozilla, Firefox or Netscape down. Try again.

It is claimed that MATHML needs the use of symbol.ttf, as a last resort (huh?), so restoring the original encoding of it might avoid a conflict. If you want the symbol font too, you can find a copy of symbolps.ttf, install it, and add the line
encoding.symbolps.ttf = windows-1252
to ---/fontEncoding. Wingdings and other special purpose fonts can be treated similarly.

These are the only workarounds I know of for this sort of thing. I would welcome any information about others.