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From: shebs@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley Shebs)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Why troff?
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Date: Sun, 1-Feb-87 17:49:56 EST
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In article <508@geac.UUCP> len@geac.UUCP (Leonard Vanek) writes:

>2. "Verbatim" environments force output into a rather ugly
>    typewriter font, which cannot be overridden.

The verbatim environment is a LaTeX macro.  Look for a file "latex.doc" or
"latex.tex" in the TeX macros directory.  All of LaTeX is there, with the
exception of parameters specific to styles, which are in files like
"article.doc" and "art11.doc".  There are even some comments scattered about!
I've had reasonably good luck with my few attempts at tweaking LaTeX things;
you should be able to lift the verbatim environment definition and alter a
copy of it to use whatever font you want (look for a "tt" in the definition).

							stan shebs