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How can I escape curly braces within the \texttt{} environment?
\texttt{ \{ } produces errors within my template, which can be found here: (link)
I saw this question for square braces, but the solution seems like a bit of a hack, and doesn't work for curly braces.
(FYI, the purpose of this is to include a regex statement in monospaced font, among normal font in the rest of a table. If there's a preferable solution, I'm open to ideas there.)
For "escaping" one typically use \, as in \{ and \}. However, for the typewriter font, you might be interested in \string{ and \string}:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Compare \texttt{\string{\string}} to \verb|{}| and \texttt{\{\}}
\end{document}
\string provides similar output to \verb, but is allowed in moving arguments.
Use a short verbatim environment, or load the fontenc package.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
\texttt{\{ Braces \}} \{ Braces \} \verb+ { Braces }+
\end{document}
The braces in the middle version are 'ordinary' text; the ones you need are on the left
and the right. Without fontenc, the first method will give the wrong symbols. This answer explains what's going on.
\verb.
– cslstr
May 29 '14 at 18:39
\string{ instead, as it appears \verb doesn't work within the tabular environment - and I presume I'm better to avoid loading a full package where possible. Thanks for your answer!
– Chris
May 29 '14 at 18:47
\textt{\char \{} (with a backtick between \char and the \{, which can't easily be shown here in comments) and similarly for the closing brace. it's a plain tex/"old style" convention, but that's what i learned first and old habits die hard.
– barbara beeton
May 29 '14 at 19:15
\textt{\char`\{}, but I can't surround the inline code with three backticks to show how it was done.
– Witiko
Mar 4 '18 at 15:47
\texttt{This has \{brackets\} in it}? – cslstr May 29 '14 at 18:37{(except in typewriter) there is very little reason to ever be using those now. If you use T1 encoded fonts\{works as shown in Ian's answer – David Carlisle May 29 '14 at 18:45\texttt{\{}produces errors. That should not produce an error (but may use the wrong font if you use OT1) Please always post a complete document that demonstrates the problem – David Carlisle May 29 '14 at 18:48