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From: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram)
Newsgroups: comp.text,yale.tex-users
Subject: Re: Miscellaneous TeX questions
Keywords: fonts, typewriter type,....
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Date: 12 Feb 89 16:07:01 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-2158
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In-reply-to: horne-scott@CS.Yale.EDU (Scott Horne)

In article <50292@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, horne-scott@CS.Yale.EDU (Scott Horne) writes:
> 2) I'm taking 2 courses in computer science & therefore need to include
> programs and fragments of code in my TeX documents. [...]
>                        So I must use `\beginlines' and also insert `| ... |'
> around every line!

LaTeX provides an environment called "verbatim".  Everything between
\begin{verbatim} and \end{verbatim} appears as typed in typewriter font.
LaTeX also provides a \verb|...| macro which is useful for in-line verbatim
text, but verbatim is probably what you need for your application.

Look at latex.tex to see how these are defined.

> 3) I write telephone numbers in the following manner:  203 436-1756.
> How should I do that in TeX?  `203~436--1756'?

Seems reasonable.

-- Ashwin.