hi, i have a little question about the verbatim environment in latex..... my problem is how can i write "\end{verbatim}" inside of a verbatim environment, it supposed that everything inside a verbatim is written just like it looks but this is the string to end the environment, so how can i do this?
\\end{verbatim}
Should do it by making the initial \
into a literal backslash.
I think it might be impossible in a verbatim
environment -- at least, that's what Lamport says in the LaTeX book (first paragraph on pg. 64). However, you can do it with the \verb
command: \verb+\end{verbatim}+
works just fine (and in fact, you can use any character instead of +
as long as you make them match).
That said, the listings
package is smart enough to have an escape character. For example,
\begin{lstlisting}[escapechar=+]
+\verb!\end{lstlisting}!+
\end{lstlisting}
does exactly what you're looking for. (Again, pick a different character than +
if you're already using that for something else.)
Craig's answer is good. Alternatively, \expandafter\string\csname end{verbatim}\endcsname
.
These solutions won't linebreak nicely: fixing this is fiddly.
I have a simpler solution. Write a non-breaking space, in Emacs it's C-x 8 SPC (Windows, though I haven't tried it is Alt+0160 (on numeric keypad)
). So, you can do this:
\begin{verbatim}
\_end{verbatim}
\end{verbatim}
where the first \end{verbatim}
has this "_", the non-breaking character.