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In article <RALPH.92Aug13144317@orion.laas.fr> ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:

   >>>>> On 10 Aug 92 12:17:44 GMT, dak@cip-s02.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
   >>>>> (David Kastrup) said:

   David> Might be a textfile problem. Do these files originally include
   David> CR/LF sequences instead of simple LF (this usually applies mostly
   David> to UNIX systems). Change the files to adhere to the end of line
   David> behaviour usually expected by your OS.

   Why can't verbfile.sty and verabtim.sty be patched to work both with
   nl and CR/LF?  Wish: I would also appreciate a version that can expand
   TAB characters to `n' spaces, the default being 8.

NL vs. CR/LF: That is due to the underlying TeX implementation. If the
standard end-of-line terminator of the operating system is CRLF you
don't get the empty line. Usually, the Unix TeX gives you an extra
empty line when it sees CRLF in the input file. But since this is not
standard Unix text file format, I don't consider it a problem. If you
import DOS files you have to convert them, point. There is nothing
that can be done about it at the TeX macro level, EXCEPT ignoring
every empty line. If that is what you want, no problem. Read the
documentation of verbatim.sty to learn how to do it.

As for the TAB issue: the next distribution of verbatim.sty will
probably include such an option. 

Rainer Sch"opf
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