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Re: bracket notehead
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Christopher R. Maden |
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Re: bracket notehead |
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Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:20:31 -0400 |
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On 08/04/2012 06:59 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> That's because parentheses aren't brackets.
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> () "parentheses"
> [] "brackets"
> {} "curly brackets", occasionally "braces"
> <> "angle brackets"
I would not normally be a pedant... ah, who am I kidding?
This is a legitimate doc bug, I think: what David describes is USA
convention; British English speakers refer to “round brackets” and
“square brackets.” Parenthesis is a grammatical construct which, in USA
usage, has transferred to the punctuation used to express it.
<URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket >
~Chris
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