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>>>>> On 20 Feb 90 02:03:14 GMT, barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) said:

 > 	For the computer programming courses I teach, I make a lot of
 > handouts that contain code in C, Pascal, LISP, etc.  I would like to
 > have a nice way to typeset these languages in LaTeX.

 > 	The major problems are:

 > 	o	Not interpreting symbols of the language as LaTeX symbols;
 > 	o	Handling TAB's.

 > For the time being, I use the "verbatim" environment.  However, it doesn't
 > understand TAB characters; I have to substitute 8 space characters for
 > my TAB's (and this isn't always correct).
well, a few random points strike me:
 a) there is often a `detabbing' program on Unix systems which
    resolves TAB characters into appropriate places
 b) where do you stand on code being in typewriter font? if you are
    not wedded to that, have you tried the `trgind' system of
    prettifying code?
 c) if you don't need / { and } in your code (!), you could use the
    `alltt' environment
 d) note sure what you mean by
 > 	o	Not interpreting symbols of the language as LaTeX symbols;
    if you can do what you want with a verbatim environment which
    permits an escape character to get TeX symbols, then I can supply
    one

there are many other thoughts, of course. but mainly dependent on the
answer to b) above
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