{typewriter} is the term used for a "monospaced" font, that is, a font in which all characters have the same width.
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votes
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How to get long \texttt sections to break
I often format path names with \texttt which can be very long. Usually Tex will not break this text. The line will just create a hbox overflow. It looks like this:
................
...C:\documents ...
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votes
2answers
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How to make a real apostrophe or single-quote in LaTeX
I am trying to incorporate programming examples in a LaTeX document.
The document renders nicely with pdflatex; however, the single quotes get transformed into U+2019, a right-single-quotation mark. ...
24
votes
1answer
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How to automatically hyphenate within \texttt?
This question was phrased as a bug report for LaTeX and I thought it would be helpful to be presented here (including an answer).
The person had a lot of "common words" in typewriter font sprinkled ...
36
votes
2answers
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When should one use \verb and when \texttt
Sometimes people here use \verb!A SHORT COMMAND! and sometimes \textt{A SHORT COMMAND}.
I'm unsure when to use which.
Are there any guidelines or arguments for \verbatim vs. \texttt?
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votes
2answers
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\texttt overfull hbox problem
I asked a question earlier about \verb and overfull hbox :
In-line \verb -- overfull hbox problem
And regarding the solution there, changed many of my \verbs to \texttt{}s. I have come up with a new ...
15
votes
2answers
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How to center a typewriter (ttfamily) '+'
I would like to draw a circular TikZ node with + in its center, but font=\ttfamily moves it up. Why? How to solve it?
\documentclass[border=3mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
...
13
votes
4answers
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Using \ttfamily with \bfseries (or how to enable bold in fixed-width font)
I'm using listings package, and I've added basicstyle=\ttfamily\footnotesize. However, when I do that, the keywords from the embedded source-code are not bold anymore.
I figured that \ttfamily ...
8
votes
1answer
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Can I change all math output to use monospaced text?
Is there any way of modifying the preamble, so instead of typing
$\mathtt{x}$ ...
\begin{eqnarray}
\mathtt{y} & \mathtt{=} & \mathtt{z^\pi}
\end{eqnarray}
I can omit the \mathtt{...} ...
5
votes
2answers
750 views
Underscore in words
How can I produce the text Word_one_two in Latex?
I tried:
Samp\_Dist\_Corr
But, it doesn't quite look right. Also, I want it in the typewriter font, so actually, I'm doing:
...
2
votes
1answer
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Comma inside \texttt{} does’nt show up
I am trying to print a comma inside a \texttt{} tag, but it is not printing:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\texttt{foo, bar}
\end{document}
produces:
foo bar
not
foo, bar
How ...
24
votes
3answers
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What's a good typewriter template?
I'm searching for a template which makes a document look like it's written with a real typewriter. Ideally, this means it's not only in mono-spaced font, but the hyphenation is adjusted accordingly. ...
16
votes
1answer
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Improving typewriter animation
How can I improve the code for this animation so that I can write more words? I wanted a smarter code.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
...
9
votes
2answers
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Shrinking monospace style for listings package
I am working on a thesis and putting together a "pretty" listing. I'm looking at setting up a small font style for a code view. What I have here is:
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{language=C,
...
7
votes
1answer
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Double quotes with monospaced font and LuaLaTeX
I am trying to set the following minimal document:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmonofont{Inconsolata}
\begin{document}
\begin{verbatim}
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC ...
5
votes
1answer
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Suggestions for typewriter font to match Concrete and Euler
I'm having fun using a combination of Concrete and Euler in some of my documents. I wonder if anyone has a suggestion about a matching typewriter font? I've been trying Inconsolata (scaled to .97) ...
4
votes
2answers
268 views
Define my own short-verb like macro?
I'm trying to define shorthand macros for \texttt that are a bit like the \verb ones. The end result is to do +asdf+ and this have the same effect as \texttt{asdf}. This is like the DefineShortVerb ...
7
votes
1answer
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not able to write bold characters using textbf
I'm working on latex and R (swaeave) and I am using utf8 encoding but when I use \textbf{dataset}, the text is not bold. Below is part of my code. But I am not sure what is reason behind it.
...
6
votes
2answers
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Bold Typewriter Type fonts
I found out that there are cmbtt10 and cmttb10 fonts available. Unfortunately they are not used until I activate them with the \font macro, so just searching for those fonts is not possible.
The ...
5
votes
2answers
378 views
Weird spacing with DejaVu Sans Mono with MiKTeX's XeLaTeX
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{DejaVu Serif}
\setsansfont{DejaVu Sans}
\setmonofont{DejaVu Sans Mono}
\begin{document}
Hello World!
\textsf{Hello World!}
...
4
votes
1answer
371 views
How to change math font to monospace, only inside \texttt
Related with "Can I change all math output to use monospaced text?", is it possible to use the monospace math only inside \texttt (or other custom command)?
I tried to include the \everymath inside a ...
3
votes
1answer
295 views
How to escape xml code?
How to escape this kind of expression and make in typewritter font?
I added $ dollars to both ends, it did work - warnings dissapear. But text became italic of unknown font and it doesn't jump on ...
3
votes
3answers
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Prevent hyphenation in \texttt words
Background
The text contains programming variable names such as report_city and SUBREPORT_FILE. All such variables are marked up with \texttt.
Problem
Some variable names are hyphenated:
...
1
vote
1answer
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table with monospaced and nonbreaking spaces
I have a xtable generated in R/Sweave that I would like displayed in portrait mode in a pdf. The spaces in the spacedSeq should properly align the sequences.
How can I force this to be in a monospace ...
