Sorry, I found what I did wrong. I had "19%" in my actual file, and not in
the simplified example I gave but I should have put 19\% there or the
following } would be invisible and thus missing...
a stupid mistake which I understandably made for the first time way back in
1992 when I started using TeX but which I shouldn't be bothering anyone with
today... ;=}}
> > I get an error about a missing } ... any ideas?
>
> No, perhaps try a little different formatting:
>
> \omlijnd
> [...]
> {...}
groet,
Frans