I am trying to develop a beamer tutorial in beamer. Let us suppose that we have the following code:
\begin{frame}[fragile]{A slide with the table of contents}
For having a slide with the table of contents, we use
\begin{verbatim}
\begin{frame}{Contents} %complains here if there is no space
\tableofcontents
\end{frame} %complains here if there is no space
\end{verbatim}
\end{frame}
If I do not put some spaces (not a tab), before any of \begin{frame} or \end{frame} inside the verbatim environment, pdflatex complains.
I discovered this, after I continued creating three to four files in ensuring that this was the cause. Why would this be happening?
For information: I am using the TexLive distribution on an Ubuntu 14.10 64 bit.
Some more information:
LaTeX2e <2014/05/01>
Babel <3.9k> and hyphenation patterns for 79 languages loaded.
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Package: beamerbasercs 2013/12/25 (rcs-revision 31cc758a62ae)
)
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Minimum working example
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\title{A demo presentation}
\author{My self - the Indian guy}
\institute{Indian Institute}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\titlepage
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
\tableofcontents
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[fragile]{How to generate a table of contents}
\begin{verbatim}
\begin{frame} %does not cpmplain here
\tableofcontents
\end{frame}
\end{verbatim}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[fragile]{How to generate a table of contents}
\begin{verbatim}
\begin{frame} %complains here!
\tableofcontents
\end{frame}
\end{verbatim}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
tcolorboxhere. Werner also explains the cause of the problem in his answer. – Gonzalo Medina Jan 15 '15 at 01:38