[vile] vile, perl, TeX, bracket pairing

[hymie]

So I've found an issue, and I'm sure the answer is "Too bad" but I
figured I'd ask anyway.

I have a Perl script whose purpose is to generate a TeX file.
Both Perl and TeX use curly-brackets { } for grouping things.

So I might have a construct like this:

if (something)
{
  print '{\tt This is typewriter font';
}
else
{
  print '{\bf This is boldface font';
}
print ' and this is more text in that font.}',"\n';

The two different uses for brackets will interfere with each other
when I try to use the % command to match my brackets into pairs.

I don't suppose there's anything to be done, where vile might (for example)
recognize the difference between a bracket inside a pair of quotation
marks and a bracket that is not inside a pair of quotation marks.

Like I said, I think I'm out of luck, but I thought I'd ask.

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