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The {LaTeX} command used with \end to delimit an environment within which the text is formatted in a certain way.  E.g. \begin{table}...\end{table}. 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 "" and "" (a la {HTML}), or "#ifdef FLAME" and "#endif FLAME" (a la {C preprocessor}). (1998-09-21)

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