Curly Brace Shape

Hi!
I was preparing a presentation with Keynote08 and wanted to introduce a big curly brace, } .
The idea is to gather several line of text, an enumeration, under the curly brace and place beside another line of text.
To my surprise I couldn't see it in the shape menu. In Openoffice Impress for example this is very common.
Do you know how to create a shape of a curly brace?

Welcome to the forums!
Is there a reason you are not simply using a typed big curly brace? If placed in a text box it can be rotated, and you will have access to all the different curly braces that the fonts on your machine have.
The one downside of this approach is that to resize the brace you have to change the font size. However, you can also create an easily-resizable version using Ken Drake's very nifty Preview Passthru procedure: a) type the symbol in a new text box, b) select and copy the text box (not just the text), c) open the Preview application, d) from the File menu choose "New from Clipboard", e) save the resulting image as a PDF, and f) insert the saved file into your slide. You should now have a PDF image of the symbol that can be resized very easily without losing any resolution.

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1. This file is balanced with curly braces, square brackets
2. and parentheses: {}, [] and (). These
3. characters are not required to balance inside
4. quoted strings. E.g., "){[[]".
Input is balanced.
I am not doing it right and that is where I need help or a way to lead me to a solution. I am going crazy, I am losing it....any good idea will help.import java.io.*;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
class balance
public static void main(String arg[])
     Queue word = new Queue();
      int index = 0;
     LinkedList itr = new LinkedList();
     LinkedList size = new LinkedList();
        try
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            BufferedReader inFile = new BufferedReader(fr);
            String line = inFile.readLine();
             while(line != null)
                line = inFile.readLine();
                   while(size >= line.length() && line.charAt(index) != ' ')
                     Sentence.insert (new Character(line.charAt(index)));
                     index++;
                   while(!Sentence.empty( ))
                            while( itr != null )&& itr.equals( "{" ) || itr.equals( "}"))
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A fairly easy way is to have one counter variable per bracket-set you want to test for balance and count this vairable up each time you meet an opening bracket (outside a qouted string) and down each time you meet a closing bracket (also outside a qouted string)...
If these counters does not finish with having their initial values (eg. zero) the one set not balanced is the one whose counter variable is not zero (positive for too many opening brackets, negative for too many closing brackets)
eg.
int countSquareBrackets = 0;
int countCurlyBrackets = 0;
int countParenthesis = 0;
if (/*not in string*/)
switch (line.charAt(index)) {
case '[': ++countSquareBrackets; break;
case ']': --countSquareBrackets; break;
case '{': ++countCurlyBrackets; break;
case '}': --countCurlyBrackets; break;
case '(': ++countParenthesis; break;
case ')': --countParenthesis; break;
Hope it leads you closer to a solution,
chrh

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Environment:
    OS X 10.6.8
    Preview 5.0.3 (504.1)
    Updates: current as of 0800 CDT 24 Jul 2011
         -- updates issued on 24 Jul 2011 are being applied but the changelog(s) do not mention this issue
    Any PDF document containing code fragments which have more than 1 level of curly-brace
Issue:
    Pasted text copied from PDF files is produced with lines out of order, line wrap and string breaks
    in unexpected locations, and partial lines appended in unexpected ways. This appears to be an
    issue with Preview since it can be reproduced by opening appropriate PDF content either in Preview
    or Safari with the canonical Preview support for PDF documents.
To Reproduce:
    1. Open the PDF with Preview or Safari
     2. Position and size the viewing window to avoid any display-pane-induced line wrapping.
    2. Drag-select the code block and paste into another document, the following have been tried with identical results:
        - OpenOffice (writer) 3.3.0 (OOO330m20 Build 9567)
         - Terminal 2.1.2 (273.1) (into a vi session in "insert" mode)
Results:
    1. Original end-of-line positions are not preserved.
    2. Line-wrap not preserved in original *or* visual aspects.
    3. Lines trailing the first closing curly brace for the first curly brace pair at greater than nesting=2 are out of order.
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Shocking.
But best to let Apple know of any issues. We're just users here.
If your part of the ADC then bugreporter.

Auto closing curly braces

Is there any options in Dreamweaver 8 that is capable of auto
closing curly braces and parenthesis like I see in a lot of code
editors. I'm trying to use the coding environment. Thanks.

Nope. Please suggest this to the dev team, though -
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I have just installed Oracle 11g patchset to upgrade from 11.1.0.6 to 11.1.0.7.
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SEM_Rulebases('RDFS','family_rb'),
SEM_ALIASES(SEM_ALIAS('','http://www.example.org/family/')),
null))
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http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/appdev.111/b28397/sdo_rdf_newfeat.htm
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I have a client using the v8.1.6 of the OraOLEDB driver. When a query is run that references a guid, I get an unexpected error (-2147467259). The query looks like:
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Will this be fixed?
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Evan

Hi All,
I am working on Evan's team.
There are 7 fonts listed as missing on my machine when I try and open the pdf:
Helvetica (Bold)
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Helvetica-Condensed (Bold)
Helvetica-Condensed-Black (Regular)
HelveticaNeue (Bold)
HelveticaNeue-Roman (Regular)
Universal-NewswithCommPi (Regular)
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So, our team purchased the Universal-NewswithCommPi font from Adobe.
However, LiveCycle Designer does not recognize that they match. When I try and tell it to manually match the missing font with the purchased one, the issue persists: no arrows (or curly braces).
We are not sure what to do at this point. We don't want to purchase the missing Helveticas if it won't get the missing characters/symbols.
Also, wouldn't it be that characters with missing fonts should still be represented in the XDP (albeit displayed incorrectly), rather than just thrown out? Evan can correct me on this, but I believe when we used 7.0 it did it that way.
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Hi, mixed salad -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
On the US English layout, those are the two keys to the right of the P key - unmodified is square brackets, Shifted is curly braces.
Let me switch the layout -
Okay - according to the OS 9 German keyboard layout and Key Caps, here's where they are -
Square brackets - Option-5 and Option-6
Curly braces - Option-8 and Option-9
FWIW, straight vertical is Option-7
Key Caps is a great little utility (it is part of a standard OS 9 install, and should be accessible in your Apple menu). It is a live rendition of the keyboard, meaning that with the Key Caps window open you can press the various modifiers (Shift, Option, Control) singly and in combination, and see what's where on the keyboard.
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Hi everyone,
Running Mac OS X Lion (v10.7.2) on a MacBook Pro 15" (bought January 2011).
The following combinations of keys seem to be disabled on my Mac:
alt-'
alt-(
alt-§
Only those three. Others seem to work alright.
The most annoying is the alt-( since it is the opening CURLY brace character (doing some scripting using BBEdit app v8.7.1).
Tried the following:
Had the Keyboard Shortcuts restored to default in System Preferences > Keyboard.
Unplugged the Apple aluminium keyboard I am usually using, and pressed the same combinations on the MacBook Pro keyboard.
I opened the Keyboard Viewer to check the system's response in both situations. The KV does recognise the alt key being pressed (key turns grey).
But the ( key remains white when I press it while holding down the alt key.
On the other hand, combinations for the opening and closing SQUARE brackets, Cmd-( and Cmd-), are working perfectly.
Pressing the ( key alone, or combined with the shift key (5), works also perfectly (obviously ;-)).
Similar problem for the other two combinations mentioned above.
Looks like it is software- and not hardware-related.
Any suggestions to fix this would be much appreciated.
Merry Christmas to you all,
Vincent

Did some debugging following your indications.
Been able to identify the file causing the problem:
com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist
Deleted it. Now working as expected.
Unable to tell exactly which Key ID corresponds to which of the three combinations I mentioned above.
Don't intend to investigate further since my problem is solved.
Thanks for your help, Tom!
Merry Christmas!
Vincent

HOW TO system.out.PRINT a curly brace: {

How is it possible to print a { with command: system.out.print{ "text { text"}; ?
Thanks

How is it possible to print a { with command:
system.out.print{ "text { text"}; ?
ThanksYour command has 2 errors in it.
1) "system" must start with a capital "S"
2) You used curly brackets where you should have used parentheses
This works: System.out.print( "text { text");
(although I suspect that you really want to use println, not print)

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I tried to draw a big "}" with iWork. Like the qubes and circles... But I could'nt!!! It's so easy on Microsoft Office, why not in iWork? Am I to stupid or isn't it possible to do this with iWork?

If you want to make the curly brace a "Shape" you have to do it outside of Pages in a drawing program and bring it back in.
I presume you want to do this because you want to put an image inside of it or use a blend, there would be no other reason why you need this.
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http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=71&mforum=iworktipsn trick
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http://mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/zusman/dave/svg2key/
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Barces and other shapes

Where are the Brace shapes in pages? in Word they are easy to find but I am unable to insert a brace to a pages document (I had to copy it from a word document :@)
Or am I expected to draw it myself with the pen tool???

From left to right the fonts are: SimSun, Mona Lisa Solid ITC and Helvetica Neue UltraLight all sized to 175. You can quickly preview many different fonts in the Character Palette to see which one is closest to the one you want (look under punctuation). Then place it in a floating text box with wrap turned off and you can place anywhere in the document.
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Regular Expressions - matching a brace

I am a bit of a begginner when it comes to regular expressions - but I am trying to replace all curly braces - {} in a string with normal brackets - ().
This is how I'm trying to do it -
//replace any curly braces with normal brackets
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("{");
Matcher m = p.matcher(value);
value = m.replaceAll("(");
However, I get an exception when my code is run: "java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Illegal repetition {"
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Regards,
Jake

..Also, is there an easy way to replace both the open brace - {
and close brace - } characters in one expression?
// only for paired curly braces
while (target.matches(".*\\{(.*)\\}.*")) {
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