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Feb 25
get real braces, in tt mode, in latex tex
From here: in latex, you can type \verb|{| and get a real brace in a typewriter font. But if you type {\tt \{ }, you get a sans-serif replacement. In code: 
\verb|{|    % nice, real brace.
{\tt \{}    % hideously replaced by sans-serif glyph.
two ways to fix this: 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
% or
{\tt {\char '173} }