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Thanks for the answer, I agree to use \texttt for this purpose.

Stefan answered this question here. The quick answer is

I happen to write the following code over and over again.


{\color{blue}\verb|>|} {\footnotesize\verb|HI|}


So, I came up with the following code to make it a command.


\newcommand{\result}[2]{%
{\color{#1}\verb|>|} {\footnotesize\verb|#2|}
}


The problem is that the result is not what I ...

\hrule works fine. Thanks.

I need to draw a line inside a minipage.
I used \hline for the purpose, but I get the following error.


! Misplaced \noalign.
<recently read> \noalign

l.29 \vskip0.3em\hline
\vskip1em
?


What might be wrong? Or, is there other way to draw the line in a minipage?


\documentclass{article ...

Thanks for the answer.

The \footnotetext{...} gives me the correct footnote content, but the number is not shown at the bottom, and even when I give the page number as \footnotetext[\thefootnote]{hello} the number is shown in alphabetical form. And even, it gives me the error message -


l.29 The ...

The Tufte handout class give a neat layout that shows the footnote at the right hand side not bottom line.

But, when I use the minipage with tufte-handout, and if the minipage has the footnote, the footnote is broken as the attached file.

Is there a way to correct this problem? Is there a way to ...

Thanks a lot Juanjo, it works like a charm!

I'm trying to make a grayboxed environment/command as is attached.

I used tikz for round box, and minipage/verbatim to be used inside the graybox.

I came up with the following command, but it doesn't work. The verbatim inside the minipage doesn't compile.

\newcommand{\graybox}[1]{%
\noindent ...

Thanks for the answer.