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From: dougcc@csv.viccol.edu.au (Douglas Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Monospace in TeX/LaTeX
Message-ID: <810@csv.viccol.edu.au>
Date: 20 Jul 89 00:42:08 GMT
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In article <957@diemen.cc.utas.oz>, ben@tasis.utas.oz.au@munnari.oz
(Ben Lian) writes:
> Actually, I do know about the verbatim environment (don't have tgrind though).
> The reason for my original posting was that I did not (and still do not) know
> how to change margins within an environment. Ideally, I would like to use
> verbatim, but with the left margin increased by \mathindent (2.5em I think).
> No change to right margin.

Verbatim is defined as follows

   \def\verbatim{\@verbatim \frenchspacing\@vobeyspaces \@xverbatim}

Changing this to:

   \def\verbatim{\advance\@totalleftmargin by \mathindent
      \@verbatim \frenchspacing\@vobeyspaces \@xverbatim}

in a style option file might do the trick.

> And here's another question: How can I draw a box around a figure? Tried
> \framebox but it keeps keeling over with a message about not being in outer
> par mode, or something like that.

   I would think you need to put your figure into a box before you frame it.