within a verbatim, use < and > instead of \lt{} etc.

While here, while creating a patch, you use > not <

diff --git a/docs/developers/generaldevel.tex b/docs/developers/generaldevel.tex
index aeb82d52c3c991fc72e4ad2902e1df8005ba7952..7fd8f9f84165e2b1f3905c28e4c7727da37f13cb 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/developers/generaldevel.tex
+++ b/docs/developers/generaldevel.tex
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Forge CVS, which is the easiest for me to understand. If you have checked
 out the source with CVS, you can get a diff using:
 
 \begin{verbatim}
-cvs diff -u  \lt{}change.patch
+cvs diff -u > change.patch
 \end{verbatim}
      
 If you plan on doing