[texhax] Verbatim environment in LaTeX

[Reinhard Kotucha]

>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Watson <ian.watson at tpg.com.au> writes:

    > Dear Robin, Thanks for the useful advice. I suspected there was
    > something funny about verbatim, since my other environment
    > definitions or redefinitions worked OK. [...]

The verbatim envionment is indeed different.  A \begin{...} changes
LaTeX's behaviour and an \end{...} restores the original state.

A \begin{verbatim} causes LaTeX not to regard a "\" as an escape
character or a brace as a group delimiter or a "$" as a math delimiter.

The problem is that \end{verbatim} then is not be treated as a control
sequence any more.  So the verbatim environment does not work like the
other ones.  Your guess was correct.


Regards,
  Reinhard

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