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iwsbarke@acs.ucalgary.ca (Scott Barker) writes:

>Sorry if this shows up more than once - it didn't seem to work the first time
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>Hi, I'm having problems with a macro, and I was wondering if anyone could
>help. I started with a command:

>\verb"some text"\\

>Which I wanted to change into a macro:

>\type{some text}

>So I defined the macro as:

>\newcommand{\type}[1]{\verb"#1"\\}
Well, \verb works by removing all special meaning to all characters,
then reading its argument. If you define a macro like the above,
the characters already have a fixed meaning, and \verb can only change
the meaning of characters not already read in.
So the trick would be to try to let \verb see a closing brace instead
of the opening one.