At 14.24 +0100 2001-12-10, Robin Fairbairns wrote: >2. \protect has no effect on the working/non-working state of \verb. >when lamport says in his manual that you can't use \verb in the >argument of a command, he actually means what he says. While we're at \verb anyway, did anyone [with actual familiarity of extending TeX] investigate any further the feasibility of the mechanism that I sketched in my mail to this list of 13 Jun 2001? Although the particular problem that motivated that suggestion was language-tagging in multilingual documents, I did remark that one could just as well use it to implement a \verb command that _would_ work in the arguments of commands. (This is of course not practically possible in a non-extended TeX.) Lars Hellström