Re: verbatim problem

[John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>]

On Thursday 22 April 2004 08:59 am, Severin Obertüfer wrote:
> hello
>
> i have a little verbatim problem
>
> i used the \startEIFFEL \stopEIFFEL verbatim environment
> in a verry simple way like this:

Similarly I needed to have the program obey line breaks as 
in \obeylines but interpet the lines (font changes etc.) in 
the usual way. I did not want space left between lines. 
Neither the plain TeX nor the Context solutions fit this 
purpose exactly, but plain was closer. So I cobbled up this 
code:
\def\startobey{\medskip\setupwhitespace[none]\obeylines}
\def\stopobey{\setupwhitespace[small] \medskip}

I start the section needing verbatim line endings with 
{\startobey
.... and end it with
\stopobey}

I don't know if the braces are necessary but the TeXBook 
seems to imply such.

My solution tends to ignore blank lines so I have to put a 
\medskip instead of a blank line.

This is a terrible solution but the best I could come up 
with in a hurry. No doubt someone will suggest a better 
one. 

BTW whre is \startEIFFEL documented? I don't recall seeing 
it before.  
-- 
John Culleton
Able Typesetters and Indexers
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