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This question is a follow up to verbatim-like environment with optional arguments poorly behaved. Based on David Carlisle's suggestion, I manually looked for an optional argument and employed \scantokens to retokenize the text when there were no arguments found. The only problem that remains is that there is a linefeed after the \scantoken that I need to eliminate

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{ifthen} \normalsize
\parskip 1ex\parindent 0em

% SEEMS LIKE IT SHOULD WORK, BUT LACK OF OPTIONAL ARGUMENT MAKES 1ST
% ITEM OF ENVIRONMENT GET EXECUTED AS IF IT WERE OPTIONAL ARGUMENT
%\newenvironment{jenv}[1][]{#1\verbatim}{\endverbatim}

% THIS ALMOST FIXES IT, BUT PUTS LINEFEED AFTER \scantokens
\def\jin#1#2#3{\ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{[}}%
                {#2\verbatim}%
                 {\verbatim\scantokens{#1#2#3}}%
              }

\newenvironment{jenv}{\jin}{\endverbatim}

\begin{document}

\normalsize
\begin{jenv}[\LARGE]
this is a test
\end{jenv}

\normalsize
\begin{jenv}[\LARGE]
\tiny this is a test
\end{jenv}

\normalsize
\begin{jenv}
this is a test
\end{jenv}

\normalsize
\begin{jenv}
\tiny this is a test
\end{jenv}

\end{document}

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  • You only want to re-scan #1 the optional argument don't you? – David Carlisle Apr 16 '13 at 14:10
  • Also you don't want to use a normal \def#1 to look for[it will fail completely if the first character is{` – David Carlisle Apr 16 '13 at 14:12
  • @DavidCarlisle The MWE makes it look like I could avoid the optional argument altogether and just issue the optional argument prior to invoking an argument-free environment. However, all of this stuff is going to get stuffed into a box, and so I was hoping to use the optional argument to pre-condition (e.g. define font size or such things) the subsequent verbatim environment. – Steven B. Segletes Apr 16 '13 at 15:09

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{ifthen} \normalsize
\parskip 1ex\parindent 0em

% SEEMS LIKE IT SHOULD WORK, BUT LACK OF OPTIONAL ARGUMENT MAKES 1ST
% ITEM OF ENVIRONMENT GET EXECUTED AS IF IT WERE OPTIONAL ARGUMENT

\newenvironment{jenv}{\verbatim\jenvinner}{\endverbatim}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\jenvinner[1][]{{\nfss@catcodes\scantokens{\gdef\tmp{#1}}}\tmp}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\normalsize
\begin{jenv}[\LARGE]
this is a test
\end{jenv}

\normalsize
\begin{jenv}[\LARGE]
\tiny this is a test
\end{jenv}

\normalsize
\begin{jenv}
this is a test
\end{jenv}


\normalsize
\begin{jenv}
\tiny this is a test
\end{jenv}

\end{document}
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