<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Mar 12, 2008, at 5:17 AM, Joseph C. Slater PE, PhD wrote:<br>
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> On Mar 12, 2008, at 2:56 AM, Richard J Benish wrote:<br>
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>> If you would benefit from having the brackets in equations color<br>
>> coded or be tagged in some other way so that one can see which<br>
>> left goes with which right and immediately find orphan brackets,<br>
>> raise your hand.<br>
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> Like Emacs/Aquamacs does?<br>
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Yeah, or TextMate also.<br>
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Both of these programs will also automatically insert a closing<br>
bracket when you insert the opening one, btw, so the chances of<br>
orphaned brackets go down.<br></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>For what it's worth: there exists a small utility, or rather a Preference Pane, called AutoPairs, freely downloadable from </div>
<div><a href="http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/autopairs.html">http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/autopairs.html</a></div><div>which does the same, not only for all types of brackets but also, if desired, for quotes. It works perfectly in Tiger for most applications, the only exceptions I found on my system up till now being MS Word and Spotlight.</div>
<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Robert Blackstone </div></div><br>