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- From: iwsbarke@acs.ucalgary.ca (Scott Barker)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: need help with a LaTeX macro
- Date: 28 Aug 1992 16:45:44 -0500
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- Sorry if this shows up more than once - it didn't seem to work the first time
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- Hi, I'm having problems with a macro, and I was wondering if anyone could
- help. I started with a command:
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- \verb"some text"\\
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- Which I wanted to change into a macro:
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- \type{some text}
-
- So I defined the macro as:
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- \newcommand{\type}[1]{\verb"#1"\\}
-
- Which works fine, except when {some text} contains special characters such as
- #$_ etc. Now, when I do:
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- \verb"# comment line for some programming language"\\
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- There is no problem, but when I use my macro:
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- \type{# comment line for some programming language}
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- LaTeX complains (actually, I think it is TeX complaining) about improper use
- of the # character.
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- Any ideas why the command works, but the macro doesn't?
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- Thanks for any help you can give.
-
- --
- Scott Barker
- barker@enel.ucalgary.ca
-
- "Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end."
- - Spock, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
-