Re: [Gregorio-users] Downarrows

[Pierre François]

In my humble opinion, better than a "$\downarrow$" for the flex, the glyph to use seems me to be "\dag". No "$" signs are required for the \dag. On 08/21/2015 05:15 PM, Brother Noah Enzor wrote: Thank you!  I had forgotten all about that requirement! Br. Noah On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Michael Martin <arsastronaut...@me.com> wrote: Put the down arrow command between $ signs. This switches you to math mode where you can use those special symbols you are used to.  $\downarrow$ Sent from my iPhone On Aug 21, 2015, at 9:27 AM, Brother Noah Enzor <brother.noah.en...@gmail.com> wrote: Greetings Gregorio community.  Many thanks for all your valuable help thus far.  I am up and running.  At this time, I am working on Divine Office books for Lent.  This is more a TexWorks question than a GABC question, but hopefully someone will have some information.   The custom in my community is to insert a downward arrow on three-line stanzas whenever they occur in psalmody.  Hence, we would want something like this for Psalm 3, which we recite at the beginning of Vigils each morning.   Arise, Lord; save me, my God, \downarrow you who strike all my foes on the cheek, you who break the teeth of the wicked! ​ My trouble is that I cannot get that \downarrow to show up.  I took a lot of pure math courses in college and used to use LaTex to complete homework assignments.  I have loaded the amssymb package.  But when I typeset this, I get the following error.   61 Missing $ inserted. <inserted text>  $ l.61 Arise, Lord; save me, my God, \downarrow Any assistance welcome!  Thank you, as always! Brother Noah _______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list Gregorio-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users _______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list Gregorio-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users -- Father Pierre FRANÇOIS (http://www.romanliturgy.org) Bosmanslei 16 2018 Antwerpen (Belgium) mobile: +32 474 719 131 phone: +32 3 237 63 96

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