On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:11:38PM -0300, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
> I was wondering what is the purpose of binding { to (literal) {} in math
> mode. In text mode, we have the following bindings
>
> { -> \{
> } -> \}
>
> which seem natural to math mode too. Is this a bug or a feature that I
> don't understand? I seems to me that literal {} are useful only within
> ERT.
Math _is_ ERT. More or less. We need the {} gouping in some cases.
Binding { -> \{ and \{ -> { is not only stupid, it also makes for messy
code full of special case handling in the already convoluted math cursor. I
tried to get it right several times and there always remained at least one
case where it did not work. Now the rules are simple: Do as LaTeX does. If
you want \{, type \{. If you want {}, type {.
Andre'
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