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		BeFlatXIII on Aug 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fa... Might the {\rm text} notation be LISP-inspired syntax? Replace the braces with parentheses and remove the slash and you get `(rm text)`

andi999 on Aug 8, 2021 [–]

Somehow \mbox is the opposite though (see the examples) : https://www.tutorialspoint.com/tex_commands/mbox.htm

Honestly I think I am missing all the points about brackets in Latex, if somebody knows the Syntax (and the 'why' pls tell me).

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