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In article <1992Sep07.081446.192@infko.uucp>, benz@infko.uni-koblenz.de 
(Hartmut Benz) writes:
>>[...]
>> >\newcommand{\type}[1]{\verb"#1"\\}
>
> As far as I know it is impssible to use \verb... inside a macro like this  
> at all.

There have been several recent posts on this subject. Arseneau's response
follows. 

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu


From: asnd@reg.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Subject: Re: Help writing a macro that expands to \verb
Summary: How: \def\term#1{\verb|#1|}
Keywords: Macro \verb Latex
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 09:43:00 GMT


In article <1992Sep1.123134.7107@cs.cornell.edu>, raman@cs.cornell.edu 
(T. V. Raman) writes...
>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