Getting { and } in text mode...

Andres Morales <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello everyone....
 
I used to get curly brackets { and } in text mode by just using \{ and \}. Now the only way to get those is using $\{$.
 
Am I missing something? Has something changed? or I'm doing something wrong... any advise is appreciated
 
 
Thanks
 
Andres 
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