<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV></DIV><DIV>But I am still looking for a better solution: if possible, I should be using brackets instead of parentheses, and I would prefer them thinner (the parentheses, or hopefully, brackets), so that it would look more like the standard mathematical notation. </DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Again, thanks very much for your patience with these relatively elementary questions,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Roger</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>********************************</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Roger Hart</DIV><DIV>Assistant Professor, Departments of History and Asian Studies</DIV><DIV>University of Texas at Austin</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>office: Room 470, Burdine Hall</DIV><DIV>office phone: 512-475-7258</DIV><DIV>department fax: 512-475-7222</DIV><DIV>email: <A href="mailto:rhart@mail.utexas.edu">rhart@mail.utexas.edu</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rhart">http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rhart</A></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>*********************************</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>