# Boldface and subscripts in verbatim mode?

How do I create boldface and subscripts in verbatim mode? I've seen mention of a fancyvrb package that might be able to help. Can anyone provide working LaTeX code, either with or without fancyvrb?

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Look at this tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33236/… – R. Schumacher Jul 19 '12 at 1:12

Using the fancyvrb package, with the commandchars option you can introduce escape sequences in verbatim code; in particular, you can get boldfaced fonts (provided you are using a suitable font. Using the codes option you can specify catcode changes ; in particualr, this allows you to include formatted mathematics in verbatim text:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\usepackage{bera}

\begin{document}

\begin{Verbatim}[commandchars=\\\{\},codes={\catcode$=3\catcode_=8}] code line 1$a_{i}$code line 2 \textbf{boldfaced text} \end{Verbatim} \end{document}  Using the more powerful listings package, you can escape to LaTeX using the escapeinside option and you can activate the mathescape option: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{listings} \usepackage{bera} \lstset{basicstyle=\ttfamily, escapeinside={||}, mathescape=true} \begin{document} \begin{lstlisting} code line 1$a_{i}$code line 2 |\textbf{boldfaced text}| \end{lstlisting} \end{document}  The above solutions treted subscripts as mathematical expressions; you can get non-math subscripts using \textsubscript from the fixltx2e package; a little example using fancyvrb: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fancyvrb} \usepackage{fixltx2e} \usepackage{bera} \begin{document} \begin{Verbatim}[commandchars=\\\{\},codes={\catcode$=3\catcode_=8}]
code line 1
$a_{i}$
code line 2
\textbf{boldfaced text}
a\textsubscript{i}
\end{Verbatim}

\end{document}


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Thanks for the working code. I noticed the subscripts require math mode. Is there any way to keep subscripts in the same fixed-width font (e.g. Courier) as the verbatim, non-math text? – stackoverflowuser2010 Jul 19 '12 at 5:01
@stackoverflowuser2010 sure; please see the last code in my updated answer for an example. – Gonzalo Medina Jul 19 '12 at 5:18
Thanks for your help. Now I need to figure out what those 'catcode' sequences mean. Are those from the fancyvrb package? – stackoverflowuser2010 Jul 19 '12 at 6:54
@stackoverflowuser2010 Catcodes come from TeX. All characters in TeX are assigned a "category code" or catcode. Normal characters are catcode 11; this category normally comprises all of the letter characters. Some special characters have other catcode which means they are not treated as a normal letter. Internally fancyvrb "annihilates" special catcodes to treat all characters as normal letters. When you use the option \catcode_=8, for example, you are instructing fancyvrb` to treat the underscore not as a regular letter, but as the special character used to introduce subscripts. – Gonzalo Medina Jul 19 '12 at 12:59
@stackoverflowuser2010 A detailed explanation on catcodes can be found in TeX by Topic. Please, don't forget to accept my answer if you consider that it solved your problem. – Gonzalo Medina Jul 19 '12 at 13:00