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From: d87-jse@nada.kth.se (Joakim Sernbrant)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Monospace in TeX/LaTeX
Message-ID: <1274@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 12 Jul 89 11:53:15 GMT
References: <955@diemen.cc.utas.oz>
Reply-To: d87-jse@nada.kth.se (Joakim Sernbrant)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <955@diemen.cc.utas.oz> ben@tasis.utas.oz.au@munnari.oz (Ben Lian) writes:
>I am trying to typeset some program fragments in typewriter style. At
>the moment I do this by defining a new (LaTeX) tabbing environment and
>then doing things like
>
>\begin{program}
>\>{\tt TYPE} \\
>\>\>{\tt T1 = PRODUCT} \\
>\>\>\>{\tt f1 : word} \\
>\>\>\>{\tt f2 : word} \\
>\>\>{\tt END}
>\>{\tt END}
>\end{program}
>
>(1)  There must be an easier way of doing this, and I'd appreciate it if
>     you could let me in on the secret;

Try this:
\begin{verbatim}
  TYPE
    T1 = PRODUCT
           f1 : word
           f2 : word
         END
  END
\end{verbatim}
The verbatim environment copies the text exactly as you enter it;
with spaces and all.

>(2)  The single space between each colon and the following 'word' gets
>     expanded to what looks like something between 1.5 and 2 spaces.
>     Why is this happening? And what can be done about it? (This is also
>     happening with 'c ! e' and 'c ? v'.

LaTeX handles a colon as a punctation mark, and therefore
adds some space after it. No space is added in the verbatim 
environment though.

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