#72 Provide a komafont element `verbatim`

[mh113]

The font to be used for verbatim environments (and for verb...) is stored in the LaTeX kernel command \verbatim@font (default is \normalfont\ttfamily). It would be convenient if this font could be set using the komafont mechanism, i.e. with \setkomafont or \addtokomafont. Would it be possible to provide a komafont element verbatim that sets \verbatim@font? (I. e. adding something like

\newcommand*\scr@fnt@verbatim{\verbatim@font}

to the class files, if I understand the implementation correctly).

[Markus Kohm]

At first glance, the idea seems tempting. But:

• The verbatim environment is not a KOMA-Script environment but a LaTeX kernel environment.
• There are a lot of packages, that redefine verbatim. I'm not sure, that all of them use \verbatim@font. (To be true: I'm even sure, they do not).
• For example fancyvrb uses AFAIK a font setting that cannot be easily reproduced with a single KOMA-Script font element.
• Package verbatim has settings inside the definition of \verbatim@font, that are not font attributes, which are documented to be used with \setkomafont and \addkomafont.

So such an element could even be confusing and therefore on closer inspection, however, I think the idea is less good.