Unable to place a verbatim block inside a minipage

[Debajit Adhikary]

I'd like to place a verbatim environment inside a minipage, but I get
an error saying

! Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again>
\relax
l.54 \begin
{verbatim}

What am I doing wrong?
What is the correct way to place a verbatim block inside a minipage?

[David Kastrup]

"Debajit Adhikary" <deba...@gmail.com> writes:

There is no problem inherent in placing a verbatim block inside a
minipage, so you should post a minimal example. Here is one for
reference:

\documentclass{minimal}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\begin{verbatim}
#$%$#^%$V^T$%VTV^T$%
\end{verbatim}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

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[Debajit Adhikary]

On Mar 17, 2:16 am, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:

I'm trying to place verbatim code inside an fcolorbox. Here is the
code snippet

\fcolorbox{DarkGray}{LightGray}{\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\begin{verbatim}
asdf asdf asdf
asdfasdfasd fasdf asdf
\end{verbatim}
\end{minipage}
}

This does not work. Why?