[texhax] LaTeX tabbing oddities

[Pavel Minev Penev]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:03:53PM +0200, juanalberdi wrote:
> I suggest trying
> 
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> 
> in the preamble

[...]

> Angela Thomas wrote:
> 
> >Hello, I have been referred to your group after having no luck finding 
> >the asnwer to my question through various LaTeX FAQs and even the 
> >LaTeX3 project website and FAQ archive.
> >
> >I am trying to print a section of XML text so that it will appear as 
> >an XML code snippet in the document that I am producing.  To create 
> >the appropriate style for this code layout, I am trying to use the 
> >tabbing environment to properly distribute the code segments.
> >
> >\begin{tabbing}
> >\=\hspace{0.25in} \=\hspace{0.25in} \=\hspace{0.25in} 
> >\=\hspace{0.25in} \kill
> >\> <category>\\
> >\> \> <pattern>WHAT IS A *</pattern>\\
> >\> \> \> <template><srai>DEFINE <star index ="1"/></srai>\\
> >\> \> \> </template>\\
> >\> </category>\\
> >\\
> >\> <category>\\
> >\> \> <pattern>DO YOU KNOW WHAT A * IS</pattern>\\
> >\> \> \> <template><srai>DEFINE <star index ="1"/></srai></template>\\
> >\> </category>\\
> >\end{tabbing}

I also suggest using packages for what they were created and looking
into listings (which can give you a higher typographic quality than a
tabbing evrionment).  For the `<' and `>' there are a number of symbols
you may want to consider (look at math less-than and greater-than, the
French gullimet [quote marks] --- hope that is spellt correctly --- and
possibly others).

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