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Verbatim

Within this environment things come out unformatted. It's useful for showing examples of typed input and provides a way of printing characters that have a special meaning for L^ATEX.

\begin{verbatim}
caret is ^, tilde is ~ and backslash is \
\end{verbatim}

produces

caret is ^, tilde is ~ and backslash is \

If you just want to quote a few characters, use \verb|quoted text|. The characters delimiting the quote can be anything as long as they are the same.

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Information provided by Tim Love
2006-08-30