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In article <1992Sep1.123134.7107@cs.cornell.edu>, raman@cs.cornell.edu (T. V. Raman) writes...
> 
>Hi!
> 
>I would like to have a macro of the following type:
>\term#1 which expands to \verb|#1| but do not know how to write it.
> 
>Clearly \def\term#1{\verb|#1|} is not the solution.

Haven't there been a lot of requests like this lately?
Here's how:

\def\term#{% not #1 but just #
   \afterassignment\Term \let\TErm= }% remove {. final space is necessary

There's more. How to do the rest depends on how braces should be treated.

If:  \term{a{b} should give \verb"a{b" then use:

\edef\Term{\noexpand\verb \string}}

If:  \term{a{b}} should give \verb"a{b}" then use:

\def\Term{\bgroup \tt \let\do\@makeother \dospecials \makeactbraces}

\begingroup
\catcode`\(=\catcode`\{ \catcode`\{=\active
\catcode`\)=\catcode`\} \catcode`\}=\active
\gdef\makeactbraces(\catcode`\{=\active \catcode`\}=\active
  \edef{(\bgroup\string{)\edef}(\egroup\string}))
\endgroup

That's it.  \term cannot be used in the argument to another command, 
just like \verb.

Donald Arseneau        asnd@reg.triumf.ca