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I am new to using LaTeX.  I have been using Scribe for years and am
trying to convert something from Scribe to LaTeX format.
The document is a curriculum vita and was done with the verbatim
environment in Scribe.  Included in the text is some boldfacing.
Scribe will interpret commands in a verbatim environment so this
is pretty simple to do.  However, LaTeX in verbatim mode is incapable
of parsing LaTeX commands (some might argue that is what verbatim means)
so I don't know how to go about doing what I want.  The Scribe document
looks basically as follows:

@begin[verbatim]
@b[Born]: date                              place

@b[Education]
       B.A. ....
       M.A. ....
       Ph.D. ....
@b[Professional Societies]
       List of them follows

etc.
@end[verbatim]

What I need is a LaTeX command which says don't change the way in
which I have formatted this but do listen to things such as font changes.
Can this be done?  How do I do it?  Please e-mail me the answer.
Thanks in advance.
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 Anita Cochran  uucp:  {noao, ut-sally, ut-ngp}!utastro!anita
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