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From: wtho@cgcha.UUCP (Tom Hofmann)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: ewenvironment in LaTeX
Message-ID: <453@cgcha.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 03:56:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: cgcha.453
Posted: Thu Jul 30 03:56:52 1987
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in article <311@crin.UUCP>, masini@crin.UUCP (Gerald MASINI) says:
> 
> I'm now just a beginner (no more absolute) with LaTeX, and I would like to
> define an environment of my own, including some verbatim. Something like
> that:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> \newenvironment{myenv}{\begin{verbatim}}{\end{verbatim}}
> ...

I suppose you find the solution on page 66 of the LaTeX book:

    o  A verbatim environment ... may not appear within an argument of
       any other command.

In your case the verbatim environment is the argument of the command
\newenvironment, and that's why it doesn't work.

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