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Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Rainer Schoepf) writes:

>   How do I get a backslash that looks right inside \tt?  The \backslash
>   backslash is too big?  I'm looking for something like the backslash I
>   see all over the place in the LaTeX reference manual.
> 
>\verb=\=

This will only work if it is not used as an argument for anything else.
I recently needed a backslash to go into an index command, and then this
didn't work.  We found the solution as

\newcommand{\bsl}{{\tt \char '\\}

which is then used all over the place. After converting a whole document
full of \verb|\whatever| to \texcommand{whatever} (where \texcommand is
defined as 
  \newcommand{\texcommand}[1]
     {\bsl{\tt #1}\index{#1@\bsl{\tt  #1}}}
)
I got very tired of \verb.  Is there a decent way of discouraging the
use of \verb?

-- 
Thorbj{\o}rn Andersen |  map ravn [repeat albani] .... Core dumped
ravn@imada.ou.dk      |  b="a=\"b=\"++show b++';':b";a="b="++show b++';':b