General ⇒ Inserting text "as is"

[matjaz]

Hi,
I have some text that i would like to see represented the way it is in my
document later.
In other words, i would like latex to not treat a part of my latex code as document-building instructions, but to display it as it was written.
Is there an environment that could achive that ?

Something like

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\begin{xxx}
<node BACKGROUND_COLOR="#0ea0f1" COLOR="#0033ff" TEXT="Child1-1">
\end{xxx}

would result in line
<node BACKGROUND_COLOR="#0ea0f1" COLOR="#0033ff" TEXT="Child1-1">
in my document.

I do not wish to manually check if every character inside environment xxx
is perhaps a control character that needs to be escaped (_ to \_).

Thanks
matjaz

[frabjous]

I think you're looking for this:

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\begin{verbatim}
<node BACKGROUND_COLOR="#0ea0f1" COLOR="#0033ff" TEXT="Child1-1">
\end{verbatim}

But for even more options and more power, check out the listings package.

[matjaz]

Hi,
thanks, that was exactly what i was looking for.
I, for some reason, could not find that environment with my google skils..

I have now found an explanation of similar environments that anybody with similar trouble could use (verbatim, verb, ...). I am including a link for future reference
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Form ... Paragraphs

Thanks again
Matjaz

[localghost]

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Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten