You can disregard the message I just sent.

I now discovered that a subsequent message from Frank (Mittelbach) implicitly answered
this:

\usepackage{shortvrb}
\MakeShortVerb{\|}

[I knew there was a package SHORTVRB, but that did not appear to work - I now know you
also need to use the declaration MakeShortVerb]

So ignore this.

Frank (Poppe)
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Just a dumb question. I haven't done much in LaTeX lately, but try to follow these
discussions.
Which package do I have to use to get this text through LaTeX without the "shortref" |
causing problems?

TiA,

Frank Poppe

"[log in to unmask]" 97.03.01, 18:56 >>>
FM> As a special subject related (or currently related at least) to the
FM> language discussion we have the syntax and semantics of shortrefs.
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