If you’ve ever been frustrated by getting strange-looking characters while typing expressive text, here’s how to fix the problem.

If you’ve ever been frustrated by getting strange-looking characters while typing expressive text, here’s how to fix the problem.
This plug-in allows you to specify the music font for the Beats Per Minute (BPM) characters in ‘Tempo’ text and ‘Metronome mark’ text, with options to format associated equal signs, dashes and parentheses.
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