How to insert music symbols into Preview app? Not all installed fonts available.

I want to add musical symbols to a PDF document in a Preview.app (Tools > Annotate > ) Text box. Opus font is installed in Font Book under Computer but it is unavailable in Preview app as a font choice. I checked Pages, it also does not show Opus font. When I select the half note symbol (U+1D15E <https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/musical-symbols/>) from the Font Book preview and paste it into a Preview Text box or a Pages document, it displays as the letter "h". When I type the Unicode value 1D15E into the (CTRL+CMD+space) Character Viewer search field, it describes it as MUSICAL SYMBOL HALF NOTE but displays an empty rectangle. When I select Unicode Hex Input in the "flag" menu at the top right of the Finder (after adding it(1)) and hold down the Option key while typing 1D15E (2), the character "ᴕ" appears after 1D15, it doesn't accept a 5 digit code. My system Mac OS is 10.12.6 Sierra.

How can I insert music symbols into Preview app?

1) System Preferences > Keyboard, Input Sources tab, hit + at the bottom, scroll the left slider down to Others at the bottom, select Unicode Hex Input

2) https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1817251

Posted on Mar 9, 2019 10:48 AM

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Posted on Mar 12, 2019 11:33 PM

Yes, I discovered that works and was writing the following when your reply arrived!

I still can't enter a character using the Option key with the Unicode keyboard, but I found the solution here

<https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/183045/how-can-i-type-unicode-characters-without-using-the-mouse#183056>

that you contributed to. I entered "u+1d15e" into the search field in 𝅥Character Viewer in collapsed Emoji view. After selecting the symbol with a down arrow or the mouse, a single click inserted it into the underlying text input field. Sometimes the Character Viewer closes, sometimes it doesn't...

In Character Viewer expanded/full view (toggled by the icon to the right of the search field, as you know, but for others' info), I can search for either "u+1d15e" or "1d15e", but I have to double click on the found symbol for it to appear in an underlying text field. Without searching, I can also double click on any symbol displayed in the center panel to insert it into a document.

In my previous unsuccessful attempts, in Character Viewer full view, I selected a symbol with a single click, then single and double clicked the enlarged symbol in the right side info panel, which did nothing. Now I know I can double click on a smaller character in the center panel to insert it. 𝅗𝅥𝅗𝅥𝅗𝅥𝅗𝅥𝅗𝅥𝅗𝅥

Thanks for your help!

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