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\noindent Just trying to use 'verbatim' inside two floating 'figures', applying an empty 'makeimage' in order to avoid conversion to bitmaps (as described in the l2h-manual).  In the tex-source as well as in the dvi, the two figures consist of four lines of text, each:
\begin{quote}
  plain figure\\
  verbatim in figure\\
  plain figure after empty makeimage\\
  verbatim after empty makeimage
\end{quote}

\noindent The first figure:
\begin{figure}[htbp]
plain first figure
\begin{verbatim}verbatim in first figure\end{verbatim}
\begin{makeimage}\end{makeimage}
plain first figure after empty makeimage
\begin{verbatim}verbatim in first figure after empty makeimage\end{verbatim}
\end{figure}

\noindent \ldots l2h refuses to type the fourth line of the first 'figure'.  And now for the second figure:

\begin{figure}[htbp]
plain second figure
\begin{verbatim}verbatim in second figure\end{verbatim}
\begin{makeimage}\end{makeimage}
plain second figure after empty makeimage
\begin{verbatim}verbatim in second figure after empty makeimage\end{verbatim}
\end{figure}

\noindent \ldots l2h refuses to type any 'verbatim' of the second 'figure'.  And a third 'figure', omitting the 'makeimage':
\begin{figure}[htbp]
plain third figure
\begin{verbatim}verbatim in third figure\end{verbatim}
\end{figure}

\noindent \ldots l2h converts the contents to a bitmap, omitting the 'verbatim'.

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