Is it possible to write cue-size notes as an ossia?
For instance, I have three tied quarter notes (I don’t want to make them a dotted half) on a super-high C in the clarinet. C7 I think, an octave above the C two lines above the staff. (Written D7 if transposed for Bb clarinet.) Dorico thinks that’s out of range for the clarinet. What Dorico thinks doesn’t matter because my clarinet player had no problem playing it in performance. Unfortunately, I know I can’t expect to hear that screeching note in playback.
Anyhow, I’m thinking of providing a three-beat ossia (on middle C, C4, three octaves lower, not one) but I’d like to put it on the same staff in cue-size notes. Oh, and the ossia will have flutter tongue (Shift+P ///) but the high note will not.
Is it asking too much if I could also put the ossia in parentheses or brackets?
The interesting thing about this is you can do whatever you want with a pencil. 
You’ll probably want to input the two notes in different voices. Then select the one you want to be smaller, and in the Properties panel, set Scale to Cue.
You can put any individual note in round or square brackets by turning on the Bracket Style property (in the Bracketed Noteheads section in the Properties panel). If you want to put one set of parentheses around all three notes, then you’ll have to resort to some trickery. There are some suggestions in this thread.
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Excellent. Different voices, flip (to make it upstem, plenty of vertical room), and setting scale to Cue worked. Decided I don’t need parentheses. Added a playing technique called “ossia.”
Problem solved. Thanks very much.