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From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: bug? in verbatimfiles.sty with LaTeX
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Date: 7 Jun 90 16:35:35 GMT
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In article <20430001@hpdtl.HP.COM>, clarke@hpdtl.HP.COM (Marc Clarke) writes...
<< / hpdtl:comp.text.tex / isaac@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Isaac Balbin) /  5:34 pm  May 16, 1990 /
<< Bug, side effect, call it what you will. If you have a \verbatimfile
<< as part of an item in a description environment, ie
<< \begin{description}
<< \item[something]
<< Here it comes
<< \verbatimfiles{whatever}
<< ...
<< ...
<< \end{description}

<< Then the first line of whatever comes out indented.
<< ----------

<Try:

<\begin{description}
<\item[something]
<Here it comes
<\noindent
<\verbatimfiles{whatever}
<....
<....
<\end{description}

NONONONONONONONO. \noindent should never be used by the user. A
far better plan would be to use a command that works properly.
Rainer Schoepf's verbatim.sty includes a \verbatiminput command
that handles this case properly. Get the file verbatim.readme
from [anonymous.tex.inputs.latex-contrib] on ymir.claremont.edu
to find out what files are necessary for the verbatim.sty.

-dh


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