Put the down arrow command between $ signs. This switches you to math mode 
where you can use those special symbols you are used to. 

$\downarrow$

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> On Aug 21, 2015, at 9:27 AM, Brother Noah Enzor 
> <[email protected]> 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
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