How does one handle the brackets located inside the templates? I don’t know whether to type my info inside the brackets or immediately before.
Could you give an example of the text you’re looking at and what template it’s from? Generally speaking, any text that’s in the editor is going to be exactly that when you compile; brackets wouldn’t be removed.
There are some special placeholder tags that may be used in templates, which would be replaced automatically during compile with information such as the project’s title or the author name. This information is taken from the the Project Properties under Project > Meta-Data Settings and can be filled in there, with the placeholder tags left unedited. These tags are always within angle brackets and beginning with a dollar sign, e.g. <$projecttitle>.
A full list of available compile tags can be found here.