{listings} is a package that extends LaTeX's {verbatim} features. A variety of syntax highlighting options are available. For general questions about {verbatim} or {highlighting} use the respective tag. For the unrelated concept of list structures, use {lists} instead.
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Highlight text in code listing while also keeping syntax highlighting
I’m using the listings package for code listings. Now I try to highlight some part of the code using \hl from the soul package.
Here’s an example of a resulting query where the injected part of a SQL ...
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Syntax Coloring in LaTeX
Is there any way to include Python code in a LaTeX file and automatically color its syntax? Is it possible to do syntax coloring with any other language? If yes what packages can I use to do that?
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How can I highlight some lines from source code?
I am preparing a presentation (using beamer) and I'll need to include many snippets of source-code. For including source code, I'll probably use listings package. (I know there is also minted package, ...
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Listings package: How can I format all numbers?
I want to highlight all the numbers appearing in an input code of a certain program by, for example, coloring them. By numbers I mean integer, rational and floating point numbers. I am trying with the ...
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How to redefine \lstinline to automatically highlight or draw frames around all inline code snippets?
How to redefine \lstinline to automatically highlight or draw frames around all inline code snippets? E.g. using \bh and \eh commands from Highlight text in code listing while also keeping syntax ...
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How to make overlay still work inside lstlisting environment?
Problem
I want to explain C# programming language step by step using overlay in beamer.cls. But it does NOT works as shown in the following figure.
How to solve this problem?
Code Snippet
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How can I change the color of digits when using the listings package?
I'm using the listings package and was already able to modify the color of the keywords and almost all elements I was interested in. The only thing that remains is the color of the digits. I'd like to ...
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How best to include programming source code in LaTeX documents? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Syntax Coloring in LaTeX
I'm relatively new to LaTeX, and am starting to use it for academic paper writing. I'm doing a lot of computer programming as part of my ...
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Creating a zebra effect using listings
This question led to a new package:
lstlinebgrd (lstaddons bundle)
Friends, consider the following example using the listings package:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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How to automatically skip leading white spaces in listings
This question led to a new package:
lstautogobble (lstaddons bundle)
For my programming lecture slides I heavily use the listings package with \lstnewenvironment to typeset source code. It's a ...
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Extend a language with additional keywords?
I'm using listings and I want to extend a language with additional keywords for highlightning. I know there is an option morekeywords available, but that only works for a particular lstset declaration ...
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Defining `lstset` parameters for multiple languages
I am using the listings package, and have defined lstset parameter sets for multiple programming languages. I would like to select a parameter set when beginning a lstlisting or lstinputlisting by ...
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\listings code style for HTML5 (CSS, HTML, JavaScript)
I would like to create a code style for HTML5 that can be used with the \listings package.
An HTML5 document consists of three languages: CSS, HTML and JavaScript. That makes the whole thing a bit ...
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How display LaTeX code in LaTeX document?
I'm making Beamer presentation. How I can display LaTeX code inside presentation?
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highlight lines in listings
I have code that i have included into my document using the texcode below
\begin{minipage}{.48\textwidth}
\centering
\lstinputlisting[numbers=left,xleftmargin=2em,frame=single,framexleftmargin=2em, ...
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What configuration do you propose for listings.sty to make the output look comfortable?
The objective of this topic is to make a common place where we can share our settings for listings.sty. So we can use this as a reference.
Note that I am only interested in the following settings:
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XML syntax highlighting
I use the following code to include some XML code:
\lstset{language=XML}
\begin{lstlisting}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xs:schema attributeFormDefault="unqualified" ...
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Typesetting LaTeX Source Code with the listings package
I am writing some documentation for a LaTeX package, in which I am going to be including some example LaTeX code. What is the best way to typeset that code? I know I could just use verbatim, but it ...
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Colored background in inline listings
I would like to make inline code more distinguishable from the text surrounding it, and I thought that using a background might work (like it is done on the stackexchange pages.)
Since I use the ...
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How to automatically include command line session output in documents?
When I write documents that contain source code examples and snippets the listings package is a great solution to include such things. Especially with the \lstinputlisting command and ...
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How can I put lstlisting block into subfloat block?
I'm trying to compile my document but it's exploding. I've narrowed it down to this section:
\begin{figure}[h]
\caption{These are my awesome code snippets}
\subfloat[This code runs every cycle.]{
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Coloring digits with the listings package
I'm trying to typeset some python code, and I would like integer literals to be highlighted. I've come up, after about two hours of fighting with the documentation and various other questions here and ...
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Listings package not correctly showing PHP strings
I'm trying to display some PHP code in a LaTeX document using the listings package. Other languages appear fine (HTML for instance) but PHP seems to be ignoring any strings within the code. The rest ...
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How to color digits with the listings package
For my project, I've been using the listings package in order to color the keywords, comments, strings, and digits in the code.
The thing is, I've managed to color the keywords, comments and strings, ...
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Manual highlight of TeX code in a verbatim environment
Friends, I'm stuck with a unusual situation: I'm trying to highlight specific words of a TeX code inside a verbatim environment. I know listings can help me by defining a set of keywords, but in this ...
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How to prevent lstlisting from splitting code between pages?
Is it possible to prevent lstlisting from splitting a code between pages if it does not fit on one page? Instead splitting I would like to have the code on the next page.
I tried to put all ...
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Colored strings by listings package
I'm trying to type my C++ homework by LaTeX in order to prepare it as a pdf file.
I want to have my keywords in blue, my numbers in violet and my strings in reddish brown. I could do the two first by ...
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Center caption in listing
I want to put the caption of my listing in the center but I can't do that. Do you have any idea how I could achieve this? The code:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{xcolor}
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How to align comments with lstlistings?
I am using listings with these settings:
\lstset{language=C++,basicstyle=\small\sffamily,
numbers=none,
frame=tb,
columns=fullflexible,
showstringspaces=false
}
I like the proportionally ...
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set the font family for lstlisting
I have the following set up for my listings :
\lstset{basicstyle=\footnotesize,breaklines=true}
\lstset{framextopmargin=50pt,frame=bottomline}
I would like to change the font family to Courier. ...
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Phantom spaces in listings (pdf)
I have a problem with SQL code in a PDF document. For code representation I'm using the listings package. Everything works perfect until I copy-paste that code from the created PDF document. I get ...
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How to define different spaces below float and non float listing?
I am using listings from the listings-package.
I'm having a problem with spaces below the listings. I use both, float- with h and non-float listings. The problem now is, that the spaces below the ...
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Escaping from the escaping hell
Given the following MWE, where the argument for the code function contains an underscore:
\documentclass [11pt,oneside,onecolumn]{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{filecontents}
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Listings package: How to highlight math operators?
I am using the listings package to include GAUSS code to Latex.
E.g. like this:
\lstset{
emph={proc,retp,endp,local}, emphstyle=\color{blue}\textbf,
emph={[2]=,.^,./,=}, emphstyle={[2]\color{red}}
}
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Different background colors for lstinline
In the following code, I've decided to use the code from Colored background in inline listings so as to redefine \verb to have the possibility to use colors for the text and the background of the ...
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Listings language definition keyword suffixes
I'm trying to create a listings language definition for ARM assembly and many of the instructions have prefixes/suffixes (i.e. BGT, BLE, BNE, BEQ branch instructions).
Is there a way to define B with ...
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Multicolumn listing for comparison in LaTeX
I have some C code that I want to insert in a LaTeX document using a listing. I also want to display its translation to assembly code. I don't know how to display those two kind of codes in a ...
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How to suppress BOM effect in the output?
When I used listings package to import C# code snippet from within my LaTeX file, I got an output as follows.
At the first line, there is an unnecessary white space because of the BOM (Byte Order ...
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How to deal with very long lines that do not contain spaces?
I have a problem with a lstlisting environment. I want to use it for displaying several very long lines that can not be reformatted. Independently of the option breakatwhitespace=true or false my ...
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Rename “Algorithm” to “Listing”
Background
Syntax-highlighted source code image listings are being used as Algorithm floats with the lst: prefix for captions.
Problem
The following LaTeX code in the preamble renames the caption ...
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Listing, zebra effect and broken lines
In Creating a zebra effect using listings, I've found one solution to produce a zebra effect for listing.
Unfortunately, this only works if the lines are not broken. Is there a way to fix this?
Here ...
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How to tweak the LOF and LOT without using any packages?
The list of figures/tables in default book class looks like:
Default looking:
List of Figures
1.1 Snapshots .................. 2
1.2 Snapshots .................. 4
1.3 Snapshots ...
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Source code listing with frame around code?
I'd like to make my code listing looking more sexy. I found a good example on SO, but one problem is remaining:
I would like to not only have a horizontal line at the bottom of the listing but also ...
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beautiful listing for CSharp
Does anyone have a nice typesetting style for the C# language using listings? I configure it in this way:
\lstset{language=[Sharp]C,,basicstyle=\footnotesize,
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How to center a listing?
I'm trying to get some console output in my homework. I put it in a listings environment but I want it to be centered horizontally on the page.
The only thing I get centered is the caption ;-/
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minted vs. texments vs. verbments
Regarding the typesetting of syntax-colored source code, I know that listings is inferior because it doesn't utilize a full lexer. Instead the Python-based solution is recommended. It seems there are ...
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Using bold/italic text inside listings?
How can I use bold text inside a code listing? I wanted to make some parts of the code bold.
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Highlighting line ranges in a lstlisting: partial solution, but expansion issues
In my quest for a better solution for How to change appearance of a particular line when using \lstincludelisting, I came across the linebackground= option Martin Scharrer added to the listings ...
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Splitting a float with code listings
Using the floats and listings packages, I have defined a float for code listings and a shortcut for using it as follows:
\usepackage{floats}
\usepackage{listings}
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Having problems with listings and UTF-8. Can it be fixed?
I'm having some problems with listings and UTF-8 in my document. Maybe someone can help me? Some characters work, like é and ó, but á and others appear at the beginning of words...
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