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18 Feb
2004
18 Feb
'04
7:24 a.m.
A couple of fonts, including Computer Modern Roman, do not have curly braces as glyphs. As Computer Modern Roman is the brick-and-mortar font of TeX, few people bother that there is no explicit token/command that evokes it. You have a point though. -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets hannes@ruhrau.de such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain