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15. BOXES, VERBATIMS AND FILESThe \MakeShortVerb and \DeleteShortVerb macros come from the shortvrb packagewhich is part of the LaTeX base system, but I have found them so convenient that Iadded them to the class.\setverbatimfont{〈font-declaration〉}The default font for verbatims is the normal sized monospaced font. The declaration\setverbatimfont can be used to specify a different font. The class default is\setverbatimfont{\normalfont\ttfamily}To use a smaller version simply say\setverbatimfont{\normalfont\ttfamily\small}A monospaced font is normally chosen as verbatim text is often used to present programcode or typewritten text. If you want a more exotic font, try this\setverbatimfont{\fontencoding{T1}\fontfamily{cmss}\selectfont}and your verbatim text will then look likeWe are no longer using the boring old typewriter fontfor verbatim text. We used the T1 encodingto make sure that characters that are often ligatureslike ‘‘, or ’’, or ---, or , print as expected.After this we will switch back to the default verbatim font via\setverbatimfont{\normalfont\ttfamily}In the normal way of things with an OT1 fontencoding, typesetting the ligatures mentionedabove in the sans font produces: ligatures like “, or ”, or —, or ¡, or ¿, which is notwhat happens in the \verbatim environment.\begin{verbatim} anything \end{verbatim}\begin{verbatim*} anything \end{verbatim*}In the verbatim environment 3 you can write anything you want (except\end{verbatim}), and it will be typeset exactly as written. The verbatim* environmentis similar except, like with \verb*, spaces will be indicated with a mark.\tabson[〈number〉]\tabsoffThe standard verbatim environment ignores any TAB characters; with the class’s environmentafter calling the \tabson declaration the environment will handle TAB characters.By default 4 spaces are used to represent a TAB; the optional 〈number〉 argument to thedeclaration will set the number of spaces for a TAB to be 〈number〉. Some folk like to use 8spaces for a TAB, in which case they would need to declare \tabson[8]. Unremarkably,the declaration \tabsoff switches off TABs. The class default is \tabsoff.3 This version of the verbatim environment is heavily based on the verbatim package [SRR99] but does providesome extensions.280