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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.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/beamer.cls
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/beamerbasercs.sty
Package: beamerbasercs 2013/12/25 (rcs-revision 31cc758a62ae)
)
Document Class: beamer 2013/12/02 3.33 A class for typesetting presentations (r
cs-revision 332bfd3ce558)

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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}
Indian
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  • The solution provided by Werner in the duplicate question/answer (namely to box the verbatim material first) will solve your problem, although you are not using tcolorbox here. Werner also explains the cause of the problem in his answer. – Gonzalo Medina Jan 15 '15 at 01:38

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