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From: kasperba@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Christian Kasperbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: problems with fbox and verbatim environment
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Date: 14 Sep 90 13:58:18 GMT
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Reply-To: kasperba@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Christian Kasperbauer)
Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, W. Germany
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A friend of mine has a little problem with the following LaTeX file and I can't
see/find the error, too. Here is the file:

\documentstyle[11pt]{report}
\begin{document}
\fbox{
  \begin{verbatim}
    there is something wrong
  \end{verbatim}
}
\end{document}

And LaTeX produces the following output:

sunbode3-2.208% latex test.tex
This is MHTeX, C Version 2.95 (multiple hyphenation) (no format preloaded)
(test.tex
LaTeX Version 2.09 <4 Aug 1988>
(/usr/lib/tex/inputs/report.sty
Document Style `report'. Modified at TUW, 23 Mar 88
(/usr/lib/tex/inputs/rep11.sty) (/usr/lib/tex/inputs/titlepage.sty)) (test.aux)

LaTeX error.  See LaTeX manual for explanation.
              Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
! Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
\@latexerr ...for immediate help.}\errmessage {#1}

\addpenalty ...kipb \fi \fi \fi \else \@noitemerr
                                                  \fi
\@item ...tem \else \addpenalty \@beginparpenalty
                                                  \addvspace \@topsep \addvs...

\@verbatim ->\trivlist \item []
                               \if@minipage \else \vskip \parskip \fi \lefts...

\verbatim ->\@verbatim
                       \frenchspacing \@vobeyspaces \@xverbatim
<argument>  \begin {verbatim}
                              there is something wrong \end {verbatim}
\fbox #1->\leavevmode \setbox \@tempboxa \hbox {#1
                                                  }\@tempdima \fboxrule \adv...
l.7 }

?

Now my question is:
How can I surround/avoid this problem? Has anyone a god idea/solution?
--
    Christian Kasperbauer (Kasperl):

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