Text Formatting ⇒ curly braces in text mode

[AliceWonder]

When I try to use \{ and \} to create curly braces outside of math mode, it works and always has. However if I load the mtpro2 package in my preamble, it then fails, complaining about a miss $ insserted.

What is the right to way get curly braces outside of math mode that won't break by loading the mathtime pro2 package?

Googling around, escaping them is all I have thus far found, but that clearly is broken by the mtpro2 package.

[AliceWonderMisc]

Old post but I ran into same problem and this was top google result for my query.

I found a solution that works with mtpro2

Use

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\string{

and

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\string}

For example:

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\texttt{exec\string{\string}}

will typeset in the monospace font as

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exec{}