There are also \lbrack and \rbrack for [ and ]. You could define
abbreviations like
\newcommand{\l}{\lbrack} to save you from some typing effort ...
Carsten
Am Mittwoch, den 22.06.2011, 10:14 -0500 schrieb Jacobo Myerston:
> I'm editing an ancient text that is broken at the beginning of the lines.
> Thus, the convention to represent a broken part of a lines or verse is to use
> [ ]. But when [ is used at the beginning of a line in the verse environment
> xetex stops compiling. A solution for this problem is to use {[} at the
> beginning of the line, but this is an annoyance for me since most of the
> lines of the text are broken at the beginning.
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> Is there an alternative or a global command that could substitute {[}?
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