[OS X TeX] verbatim problems

[Norman Gray]

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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