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From: Marco Pessotto <melmothx@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Canonical way to escape the square brackets?
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:41:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwez4yxz.fsf@universe.krase.net> (raw)


Dear list,

I swear I searched the internet, but I guess the terms are too generic.
The question is: is there a safe way to escape the square brackets,
preventing them to be eaten by the previous command? For example:

\item [this should be in brackets]

My solution is:

\define\leftsquarebracket{[}
\define\rightsquarebracket{]}

\item \leftsquarebracket this should be in brackets\rightsquarebracket

I'm pretty sure there is already a built-in command for them, so I'm
asking the list.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards

-- 
Marco

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             reply	other threads:[~2012-01-28 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-28 15:41 Marco Pessotto [this message]
2012-01-28 17:22 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-01-28 18:31   ` Marco Pessotto

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