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From: tynor@pyr.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Help re: LaTeX 'verbose' and font changes
Keywords: LaTeX verbose fonts bold tt
Message-ID: <5928@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 14 Jun 88 20:08:54 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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	I'm seriously considering converting our software documentation from
a text formatter I wrote a couple of years ago to LaTeX.  Unfortunately, I
can't figure out how best to convert our BNF examples. I need to get output
such as:

    non-terminal ::= non-terminal <KEYWORD> non-terminal

where the non-terminals are in tt (typewriter font) and the <KEYWORD> is a
bold faced tt.  The problem is of course that in verbose mode (which is the
only environment that will preserve spacing and end-of-line), one cannot
change fonts.  The only way to do it seems to be a 'tabbing' environment,
but that is difficult to encode (I'm writing an automatic translation
utility, but eventually humans will have to maintain the documentation, so
I'd like it to be as easy to write/read as possible.)

	Any ideas, suggestions?

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Progress means replacing something wrong with something more subtly wrong.
                     
    Steve Tynor
    Georgia Instutute of Technology

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