Re: Typing arbitrary text.

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 07:20 PM 7/31/2002 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
>I want to include a complete psfonts.map line in a document.
>I tried:
>\type{augie8r Augie " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <<augie___.pf
>b }
>
>but the compile simply stalled with an asterisk. Probably some special
>character in the above string is being interpeted instead of simply being
>typed verbatim.
>
>\starttyping and \stoptyping on the same line worked.
>
>So there is some difference between \type and \starttyping. There is no
>command that will take arbitrary verbatim text and print it in line.

By default << >> is treated as grouping inside \type and so you've got an 
unbalanced group

try:

\setuptype[option=slanted]

\type{augie8r <8r.enc>} \par \type{augie8r <<8r.enc>>}

\setuptype[option=none]

\type{augie8r <8r.enc <<augie___.pfb }

(ps. now you can add an entry in Rhaban's database -)

Hans
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