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- From: ravn@imada.ou.dk (Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: backslash
- Message-ID: <1992Jul17.134420.19055@imada.ou.dk>
- Date: 17 Jul 92 13:44:20 GMT
- References: <keNSYj200WB54W3kgF@andrew.cmu.edu> <SCHOEPF.92Jul17115912@quattro.sc.ZIB-Berlin.de>
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- Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark
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- Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Rainer Schoepf) writes:
-
- > How do I get a backslash that looks right inside \tt? The \backslash
- > backslash is too big? I'm looking for something like the backslash I
- > see all over the place in the LaTeX reference manual.
- >
- >\verb=\=
-
- This will only work if it is not used as an argument for anything else.
- I recently needed a backslash to go into an index command, and then this
- didn't work. We found the solution as
-
- \newcommand{\bsl}{{\tt \char '\\}
-
- which is then used all over the place. After converting a whole document
- full of \verb|\whatever| to \texcommand{whatever} (where \texcommand is
- defined as
- \newcommand{\texcommand}[1]
- {\bsl{\tt #1}\index{#1@\bsl{\tt #1}}}
- )
- I got very tired of \verb. Is there a decent way of discouraging the
- use of \verb?
-
- --
- Thorbj{\o}rn Andersen | map ravn [repeat albani] .... Core dumped
- ravn@imada.ou.dk | b="a=\"b=\"++show b++';':b";a="b="++show b++';':b
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