2.9.4 Printing Verbatim

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2.9.4 Printing Verbatim

Text which is enclosed between \begin{verbatim} and \end{verbatim} will be directly printed, as if it was typed on a typewriter, with all linebreaks and spaces, without any L^ATEX command being executed.

Within a paragraph, similar functionality can be accessed with
$\begin{command}\ci{verb}\verb*\vert+\vert\emph{text}\verb*\vert+\vert \end{command}$
The + is just an example delimiter character. You can use any character except letters, * or blank. Many L^ATEX examples in this booklet are typeset with this command.

$\begin{example}The \verb*\vert\ldots\vert command \ldots\par\begin{verbatim}10 PRINT ''HELLO WORLD ''; 20 GOTO 10\end{verbatim}\end{example}$

$\begin{example}<tex2html_verbatim_mark\gt verbatim*4 \end{example}$

The verb command can be used in a similar fashion with a star:
$\begin{example}\verb*\vert like this :-) \vert \end{example}$

The verbatim environment and the \verb command may not be used within parameters of other commands.

Geoff Hutchison
1997-10-22