> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:24:34PM +0000, Robin Fairbairns wrote: > > > it's bad enough using the latex list for non-latex-research issues, > > but to post clueless rubbish to it is worse still. > > At the rist of incurring the Wrath of Robin, > what about \usepackage{doc} and \MakeShortVerb{\"} ? \MakeShortVerb (also available via shortvrb.sty) merely creates a shortcut for \verb. that shortcut has more or less the same properties as \verb itself, as far as arguments of other commands go. > Is this more or less equivalent to \usepackage{alltt} ? no. alltt defines a not-quite verbatim environment. since it's a (triv)list environment, it's a rather poor substitute for \verb