Re: [PLUG] Latex question...

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

(Sorry, the reply to Naresh was meant to be private. I forgot to
change the default To: line. See discussion on this from last
week. ;-)

So, the whole thing below is because I'm a dufus. I was using
documentclass{minimal}, which apparently one should never do. But I
didn't know this, all I knew is I didn't need much, so I didn't ask
for much.

It turns out, though, that one has to request one of the full-blown
document classes even to get certain TeX basics like \tt. I switched
to report (of which I need precious few features, but it doesn't
intrude much), and all's well.

So now I can successfully say

    \newenvironment{question}
    {\tt}
    {}

And get questions to appear in what the rest of the world now calls
courier.

-Jeff


On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:25:48AM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> Hi, Naresh.
> 
> Thanks.  Unfortunately, that doesn't address the question of
> font-related things I can do in an environment declaration. So I can
> say
> 
>     \texttt{This is a question.}
> 
> But it is a syntax error to say
> 
>     \texttt{This is a question.
> 
>     This question contains two paragraphs.}
> 
> I get an error about runaway arguments.
> 
> In plain TeX, at least the TeX that Don Knuth writes about in the 1986
> version of the TexBook, I could write
> 
>     {\tt This is a question.
> 
>     This question contains two paragraphs.}
> 
> But that fails in Latex today.
> 
> So in the case of font changing, I want to do something along the
> lines of
> 
> \newenvironment{question}
> {\tt}
> {}
> 
> Except that \tt doesn't work.
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:02:27PM -0500, Naresh wrote:
> > Jeff,
> > 
> > For the "question/answer problem" have you tried using "enumerate" ?
> > 
> > If I understood your question right, for paragraph spacing, I usually do
> > \vspace {12pt}.
> > 
> > Goodluck,
> > Naresh
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > 
> > > I have a quick Latex question, and my web searches haven't helped me
> > > tonight.
> > >
> > > I want to write an environment in Latex that lets me do the following
> > > in a homework assignment:
> > >
> > >     \begin{question}
> > >     What is the answer?
> > >     \end{question}
> > >
> > >     \begin{answer}
> > >     This is the answer.
> > >
> > >     This is why.
> > >     \end{answer}
> > >
> > > I'm pretty sure I understand creating environments, but I'm having
> > > trouble getting font changes that are durable over paragraphs. TeX
> > > would allow me to just say
> > >
> > >     {\tt
> > >     One paragraph.
> > >
> > >     Two paragraphs.
> > >
> > >     Three paragraphs. Wa, wa, wa!
> > >     }
> > >
> > > But \texttt{...} causes problems when it tries to span paragraphs.
> > >
> > > Any Latex users in the crowd know how to do this?
> > >
> > > Thanks much in advance.
> > >
> > > --
> > >  Jeff
> > >
> > >  Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
> > >
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> 
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 Jeff

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