Selective ottava use

[motet]

In Windows, there is something called Character Map to get hold of all the characters. That can be done through other programs as well. But I don't get those arrow characters to display in Finale when I copy and paste them in there.

I've sometimes had trouble pasting into Finale. Try both Ctrl+V and Shift+Insert. You might have to resort to using the keypad to enter the character code. Hold down the Alt key and type the decimal character code with a leading 0 on the keypad. Unfortunately, the Windows Character Map gives the codes in hexadecimal, so you'll have to cover that to decimal first (Google hex to decimal).

[Anders Hedelin]

Could you give an example of what you are trying to do? Discussing theoretical issues which have no support in known theory easily becomes too theoretical.