In LaTeX, the \verb command is used to print text verbatim, turning off the special meaning of metacharacters like \. Spaces are preserved and text is typeset using the typewriter (\tt) font.
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\verb char literal-text char \verb* char literal-text char
The literal-text cannot include a line break. The * variant prints spaces as ␣ characters.
Example[]
The xcolor package provides the \verb!\color! command.
You can mix colors by writing \verb|\color{green!40!yellow}|.
The first \verb has its literal-text surrounded with exclamation marks. The second instead uses vertical bars because an exclamation mark is part of literal-text.
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This article includes content from the unofficial LaTeX2e reference manual, which is licensed under the old-style GNU documentation license.