I'm trying to make a new environment that uses the verbatim environment
and puts a
line above and under it. The next environment accomplishes that:

\newenvironment{srclist}
{\hline\verbatim}
{\endverbatim
\hline}

Now I want to add a title at the end of this environment and I want to
be able to specify
this title as an argument to the environment command. Here are some
things I tried and
don't work:

% This doesn't work because you can't use the
% argument in the end-part
\newenvironment[1]{srclist}
{\hline\verbatim}
{\endverbatim
\hline #1}

% This doesn't work because LaTeX thinks '#1'
% is the argument to the new '\srctitle' command
% and  we didn't specify any
\newenvironment[1]{srclist}
{\newcommand{\srctitle}{#1}\hline\verbatim}
{\endverbatim
\hline\srctitle}

Does anyone have any idea on how to do something like this?

TIA,

Francisco

PS: I'll be monitoring  the group but replies to my e-mail are
appreciated.
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In fact, I expect this really does work.

What you have wrong is using \hline outside of a {tabular}.
Use a \rule command, or raw TeX \hrule (if you understand
the spacing issues).

Donald Arseneau                          a...@triumf.ca

Someone who replied directly to my e-mail pointed this out to me
after I sent him the rest of my code.

This makes me curious about something else though: What if I was
trying to use an argument for the command also?
i.e.:

\newenvironment{srclist}[1]
{\newcommand{\srctitle}[1]{#1}.......

Thanks for your info,

Francisco

Parameters get their # doubled for every level of nesting
within nested definitions.  So ##1 is the parameter for
\srctitle and #1 is the parameter for srclist.  A three-deep
definition would have a first parameter marked by ####1.

Donald Arseneau                          a...@triumf.ca