<text, chat> The LaTeX command used with \end to delimit an
environment within which the text is formatted in a certain
way. E.g. \begintable...\endtable.
Used humorously in writing to indicate a context or to remark
on the surrounded text. For example:
\begin{flame}
Predicate logic is the only good programming
language. Anyone who would use anything else
is an idiot. Also, all computers should be
tredecimal instead of binary.
\end{flame}
Scribe users at CMU and elsewhere used to use @Begin/@End
in an identical way (LaTeX was built to resemble Scribe). On
Usenet, this construct would more frequently be rendered as
"<FLAME ON>" and "<FLAME OFF>" (a la HTML), or "#ifdef
FLAME" and "#endif FLAME" (a la C preprocessor).
(1998-09-21)
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