How to use \verb|...| in the main \title of a beamer presentation?

Question

I know that to use \verb|...| in a beamer presentation you have to add the fragile option to the frame environment.

But if I use \verb|...| in the main \title of \titlepage it gives me the error:

Runaway argument?
guide to \relax \hbox {}#I\catcode `\ \active \<let>-command \csname\endcsname 
! Paragraph ended before \HyPsd@@ProtectSpacesFi was complete.
<to be read again> 
 \par 
l.5 \begin{document}

How can I solve it?

MWE:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Madrid}
\title{Quack guide to \verb|\usepackage{tikzducks}|}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[fragile=singleslide]
    \titlepage
    Why this doesn't work\dots
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile=singleslide]
    \dots whereas this \verb|\usepackage{tikzducks}| works?
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Quack guide to \texttt{\string\usepackage\string{tikzducks\string}}, perhaps — egreg, Jan 04 '17 at 17:40
@egreg Joseph Wright was quicker than you, both his first solution and yours work :) — CarLaTeX, Jan 04 '17 at 17:47
@egreg ...also his second one, only an \end{document} was missing :) — CarLaTeX, Jan 04 '17 at 20:47

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

8

As with any other case: you can't use \verb in the argument to \title. There's always a way of writing the text of a \verb out 'in full', here using \{, \} and \textbackslash:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Madrid}
\title{Quack guide to \texttt{\textbackslash usepackage\{tikzducks\}}}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[fragile=singleslide]
    \titlepage
    Why this doesn't work\dots
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile=singleslide]
    \dots whereas this \verb|\usepackage{tikzducks}| works?
\end{frame}
\end{document}

One could also use the cprotect package as described in How to put \verb command inside of \textbf{} block?, which would give

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{cprotect}

\usetheme{Madrid}
\cprotect\title{Quack guide to \verb|\usepackage{tikzducks}|}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[fragile=singleslide]
    \titlepage
    Why this doesn't work\dots
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile=singleslide]
    \dots whereas this \verb|\usepackage{tikzducks}| works?
\end{frame}
\end{document}

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

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answered Jan 04 '17 at 17:33

Joseph Wright

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Your second solution gives an error... – CarLaTeX Jan 04 '17 at 17:45
@CarLaTeX I've just run that code exactly as given with the current release of beamer: it should work fine – Joseph Wright Jan 04 '17 at 17:48
... but if I use @egreg's solution (given in a comment) can I accept this answer? – CarLaTeX Jan 04 '17 at 21:03
@CarLaTeX You can ask him to post a separate answer, though it's much the same as my first suggestion (there are various ways to input non-verbatim versions of what you want). – Joseph Wright Jan 04 '17 at 21:04
Eventually, thinking of it better, I've accepted your answer because the solution with \cprotect is more generalized. – CarLaTeX Jan 04 '17 at 21:33
It seems that it can't work on frametitle – Muhammad Yasirroni May 20 '23 at 03:32

How to use \verb|...| in the main \title of a beamer presentation?

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