[OS X TeX] verbatim problems
Norman Gray
norman at astro.gla.ac.uk
Sat Jul 8 11:02:18 EDT 2006
On 2006 Jul 7 , at 23.10, Alan Litchfield wrote:
> I thought in that case it was related to the exam class I was using
> at the time. I was inserting chunks (model answers) that were
> subsequently wrapped in the verbatim environment.
I can imagine this combination being rather flaky. The way that
{verbatim} works is by fiddling with catcodes and then reading lines
of the input one by one until it spots the string \end{verbatim}.
The way a chunking style would _probably_ work, as it sends bits of
text to external files, would be by doing some _different_ catcode
fiddling, then reading lines of the input one by one, until...
So it's not that this combination _can't_ work, just that there's a
rich array of beartraps ready for the implementer to fall in (and I
fell into a few of them myself when implementing an exam style of my
own).
Norman
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