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From: panon@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Paul-Andre Panon)
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Subject: Re: 1.3 Libraries And Devices Manual
Summary: verbatim not painless
Keywords: LaTeX verbatim
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Date: 2 Feb 90 19:16:15 GMT
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In article <31106.25b4e594@drunivac.drew.edu> tlimonce@drunivac.drew.edu writes:
>
>Why doesn't C-A use AmigaTeX?  The \begin{verbatim} and 
>\end{verbatim} work just fine!
 Except that it unfortunately doesn't. {verbatim} eats leading spaces for
breakfast. That could be nasty on indentation of programs. I know because
our team project documentation was being done in LaTeX and we banged our
head up against this. We wound up using \tt throughout. Another problem
with verbatim is that it can't be used from within other environments. Our
LaTeX guru here said verbatim is one of the things which is being upgraded
in the version of LaTeX currently being developed (according to an issue
of TUGboat a few months back). The rewrite is generally supposed to make
LaTeX more robust.  Needless to say it will be a very interesting new
version when it becomes available but I doubt it will be before our final
report is due in March :-(.
>
>(ok, ok, that's LaTeX... but it's almost the same in plain TeX).
>
>> Ken Farinsky -- CATS               Commodore Business Machines
>
>(Highly Biased TeX user)
>-Tom
>---
>Tom Limoncelli       The computer industry should spend more time in front of


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