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[David Thompson]

>  > Could you give me a simple example of the use of a curly brace "}".
>>  I did not use this sign up to the present and I cannot find an 
>>  example in
>>  the text of Panorama II+3
>
>Here is a common use for curly braces that was already part of Pan 3.
>
>You have a form with a Text object. There you wish to combine some 
>static text with a calculated value or string. Then you have to use 
>curly braces surrounding the formula within the text of this object.
>
>You can make use of the "Build Formula Š" command in the Text menu. 
>You get an Dialog. There you can access the Fields and the Functions 
>menu, and Panorama will set the curly braces for you.
>
>Here is an example:
>Last import:  {vDocument+" imported in"+vDate}
>where vDocument and vDate are variables, defined to contain the name 
>of the imported document and the import date in a date pattern.
>The form shows then:
>Last import: BKZ_0408.txt imported in April 2008
>
>There are more uses for curly braces.
>Maybe Dave can and will explain more about them.

The other use is to use them as alternatives to 
quotes. I believe the Panorama II manual 
describes the use of smart quotes. You would use 
curly braces in the same way.

Message {He said "I'll see you later."}

Panorama 3.0.1 was the first version I ever used. 
I know this use of curly braces existed then, but 
I can't say if it was available for earlier 
versions. For Panorama 3 or 4, you can quote text 
with "regular quotes" ³smart quotes², or {curly 
braces}. With Panorama V you can add 'single 
quotes' and Œsmart single quotes¹ to the list, 
and with Panorama 5.5 you can add |||pipes|||.

P.S. I know the smart quotes and smart single 
quotes won't look like that to Apple Mail users, 
but Sylvia is using 
Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition, 
which should show them correctly, unless she is 
getting the plane text version of the digest. In 
that case, they would just be question marks. 
Digest subscribers who don't want all the 
non-ASCII characters to be changed to question 
marks should subscribe to the MIME version of the 
digest. That's not the version you get by default.

Dave