Received: by nummer-3.proteosys id <01C19442.D6778D2C@nummer-3.proteosys>; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:38:52 +0100 x-vm-v5-data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t nil][nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil "^From:" nil nil nil]) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C19442.D6778D2C" x-vm-vheader: ("From:" "Sender:" "Resent-From" "To:" "Apparently-To:" "Cc:" "Subject:" "Date:" "Resent-Date:") nil X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 x-vm-bookmark: 1 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: RE: RE: VERB IN HEADINGS FULL Date: Thu, 1 Nov 1990 17:46:03 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "MITTELBACH FRANK" Sender: "LaTeX-L Mailing list" To: "Rainer M. Schoepf" Reply-To: "LaTeX-L Mailing list" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 259 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19442.D6778D2C Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I suppose I have to correct my own nonsense since so far nobody else pointed out what is wrong with it. > > If I don't miss anything the only critical character is the hash mark. Well, actually there are two more characters which can not be handled at all by \verb if some sort of \meaning is used: \verb=3D%=3D \verb=3D{=3D and \verb=3D}=3D will all run amok if used inside an argument of another command. And I must confess that I don't see any way to prevent this execpt by the very slow process of scanning the argument manually similar to the way shown in appendix D of the TeXbook. So either at least one sentence of our Cork paper is incorrect, namely that \verb can be used everywhere, or we really have to check if such a scanning mechanism is feasable. Is there anybody who tried this or something similar? Frank ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19442.D6778D2C Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable RE: RE: RE: VERB IN HEADINGS FULL

I suppose I have to correct my own nonsense since so = far nobody
else pointed out what is wrong with it.
>
> If I don't miss anything the only critical = character is the hash mark.

Well, actually there are two more characters which can = not be handled
at all by \verb if some sort of \meaning is = used:

\verb=3D%=3D \verb=3D{=3D and \verb=3D}=3D

will all run amok if used inside an argument of = another command.
And I must confess that I don't see any way to = prevent this execpt
by the very slow process of scanning the argument = manually similar
to the way shown in appendix D of the TeXbook.

So either at least one sentence of our Cork paper is = incorrect,
namely that \verb can be used everywhere, or we = really have to
check if such a scanning mechanism is = feasable.
Is there anybody who tried this or something = similar?

Frank

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