Curly Brace Shape

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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?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Sep 19, 2007 3:02 PM

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Answer 1

Tulse

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Sep 19, 2007 3:48 PM in response to taba

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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Answer 2

taba Author

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Sep 19, 2007 3:59 PM in response to Tulse

Thank you for your reply but it does not solve my problem. The problem with using a simple typed brace and rescaling it is that the result is horrible. The brace is not proportioned nicely. Depending on the actual size of the brace, the width of the line and curvature should change accordingly. If you ever use LaTeX or read a well typesetted math book you should understand...

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