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I have the following code in my Beamer slide code:

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{selections}

\begin{tabular}{ll}
sample 1 &
\begin{minipage}{3in}
\begin{verbatim}
sample 2
\end{verbatim}
\end{minipage}\\
\end{tabular}

\end{frame}

When I try to compile, it breaks with the following error:

Runaway argument?
sample 2 \end {verbatim} \end {minipage}\\ \end {tabular} 
! Paragraph ended before \verbatim@ was complete.
<to be read again> 
                   \par 
l.965 \end{frame}

?

I'm not sure what's wrong. Could anyone offer me guidance?

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    Try \begin{frame}[fragile] (untested as you didn't provide a complete example).
    – Ulrike Fischer
    Jul 23, 2015 at 12:55
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    @UlrikeFischer Would you like to provide an answer?
    – Gonzalo Medina
    Jul 23, 2015 at 14:06

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Use \begin{frame}[fragile]. This option is needed when the content contains verbatim.

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  • Hi @Ulrike Fischer. Thank you very much for your solution. If you don't mind my asking, how did you know this to be the solution? How would one interpret the error message as being that the standard frame cannot really contain the verbatim environment? Is there documentation that details this?
    – d3pd
    Jul 23, 2015 at 16:01
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    The documentation of beamer describes this problem in various places. And you really not the first getting errors due to verbatim content. When I see the trigger words "beamer + verbatim + error" the first guess is "missing fragile option".
    – Ulrike Fischer
    Jul 23, 2015 at 16:25
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    Thank you so much for this - because it also holds when an environment is implicitly verbatim, which may not be immediately evident. (Such as in SageTeX.)
    – kcrisman
    Jan 7, 2017 at 4:19
  • I am having this same error, but I am not using "frame" at all. I am using "texttt" and the text within that seems perfectly normal. Any idea at all what I should look for. Would really like to know WHY "fragile" help and how that understanding might help with my problem.
    – AgilePro
    Oct 30, 2018 at 19:35
  • @AgilePro ask a new question with a minimal example.
    – Ulrike Fischer
    Oct 30, 2018 at 21:47

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