hot to keep a semicolon in a symbol in a message
Hello, I want to have a symbol like "1j;kl", store it in a coll object and send it to a text edit or comment object from the coll. Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible because the symbol gets either separated to "1j ; kl" or the ; gets erased or it gets a backslash before the semicolon. I need the symbol in order to show a certain clarinet fingering with a special font. Any way to do that with max?
It really depends how You form the symbol.
I mean is ;kl allways a part of it or is it changeable ?
In any case combine object would help :
[textedit] doesnt know about message types, it only knows characters.
that is why even in "1j;kl" - with or without quotes - the semicolon will introduce a linebreak.
as for [message], here the semicolon is the default separator and it cant be changed anyway.
you can display arbitrary symbols best with [lcd] or various jitter objects IMHO.