Re[2]: off-topic: curly brackets

[Emery Snyder emerylist@xxxxxxxx]

The other possibility is that your author was using LaTeX and some
conversions got messed up: the syntax there for headings would be
something like

     \heading{heading name}




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Wednesday, 19 March 2003, 3:10:30 PM, Leslie wrote:


> Judith Davidsen wrote:

>> What do curly brackets mean?
>>
>> I'm proofing pages right now and find some subheads in curly
>> brackets. I've seen this in other publications and always
>> found it unnerving, as though the material within the curls
>> were asides rather than something the reader is being asked
>> to zero in on.
>>

> Assuming the pages you're proofing do not deal with some exotic
> discipline (i.e., these are not the proofs for the Spring issue of the
> Journal of Tantric Alchemy), or the work is not a translation from early
> Icelandic, which as we all know did not employ subheads and so the
> translators are merely trying to show these heads are _theirs_ and not
> in the original, I think it is fair to say that the author of the work
> in question has some sort of {fetish} and that they may be safely
> eliminated.


>>
>> Is this just my quirky interpretation or is there a
>> standard? Should I ask the layout artist to get rid of them?
>>

> Therefore my answer would be {quite probably}.

>>
>> Thanks for any info. I've tried googling, but the 11,000
>> results all seem to be about programming.
>>

> Excuse me, but I believe your search needs some narrowing down here,
> yes?

> ;-)

>>
>> Judith Davidsen

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