Display of source code in customised (IDE-like) format in PDFLaTeX

Question

I want to put some “C” source code snippets in latex (I am using PDFLaTeX), but I don’t get the result that I want using the “listings” package.

What ideally would like to get is the same result as the source code is visible in Keil uVision IDE.

Here is a sample of what I want to get:

… and this is what I currently have:

The uVision IDE is using “Courier New” font at size 10 in…

• normal style for the text (black colour)
• italic style for the comments (green colour)
• bold style for the keywords (black colour)
• normal style for the decimal numbers (purple colour)
• normal style for the brackets (blue colour)

If this proves to be quite tough to achieve, another alternative would be to get an all-black text, but with the C-keywords in bold (e.g. “for”, “if”, “void”, “int”, etc.) and the rest of the text in “Courier New” font at size 10 with no spacing. Also, it will be good to be able to edit the “TAB” size to 3 spaces.

I will really appreciate any help on that.

Answer 1

The listings package does not have a parser feature to detect decimal numbers. Thus it is very difficult to catch them. Key literate does not help much, because numbers in identifiers must not be colored.

The other requirements are easier:

• The following example uses the Latin Modern fonts.
• The colors are taken from the IDE's screenshot in the question.
• The color for the brackets and other punctuation/operator symbols are set by the literate feature of listings. The list can be extended for other symbols. Exception, if* and / are redefined using literate, then the comment detection breaks.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\usepackage{tgcursor}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\colorlet{comment}{green!50!black}
\colorlet{cppcomment}{teal}
\colorlet{symb}{blue!50!black}
\colorlet{number}{violet}

\newcommand*{\textcolorsymb}{\textcolor{symb}}

\lstdefinestyle{cpp}{%
  language=C++,
  columns=flexible,
  basewidth=.5em,  
  tabsize=3,
  basicstyle=\ttfamily,
  commentstyle={\itshape\color{comment}\let\textcolorsymb\relax},
  keywordstyle=\bfseries,
  morecomment={[l][\itshape\color{cppcomment}\let\textcolorsymb\relax]//},
  literate=%
    {\{}{\textcolorsymb{\{}}1
    {\}}{\textcolorsymb{\}}}1
    {(}{\textcolorsymb{(}}1
    {)}{\textcolorsymb{)}}1
    {;}{\textcolorsymb{;}}1
    {=}{\textcolorsymb{=}}1
    {<}{\textcolorsymb{<}}1
    {>}{\textcolorsymb{>}}1
    {!}{\textcolorsymb{!}}1
    {\&}{\textcolorsymb{\&}}1 
    {|}{\textcolorsymb{|}}1
    {?}{\textcolorsymb{?}}1
    {:}{\textcolorsymb{:}}1
    {+}{\textcolorsymb{+}}1
    {-}{\textcolorsymb{-}}1
    {,}{\textcolorsymb{,}}1
    {\%}{\textcolorsymb{\%}}1
    {\^}{\textcolorsymb{\textasciicircum}}1
    {~}{\textcolorsymb{\textasciitilde}}1
    %% {/}{\textcolorsymb{/}}1
    %% {*}{\textcolorsymb{*}}1
    % 2 (optionally)
    {==}{\textcolorsymb{==}}2
    {>=}{\textcolorsymb{=>}}2
    {<=}{\textcolorsymb{<=}}2
    {!=}{\textcolorsymb{!=}}2
    {+=}{\textcolorsymb{+=}}2
    {-=}{\textcolorsymb{-=}}2
    {*=}{\textcolorsymb{*=}}2
    {/=}{\textcolorsymb{/=}}2
    {\%=}{\textcolorsymb{\%=}}2
    {\&\&}{\textcolorsymb{\&\&}}2
    {||}{\textcolorsymb{||}}2
    {++}{\textcolorsymb{++}}2
    {--}{\textcolorsymb{--}}2
    {>>}{\textcolorsymb{>\kern0pt>}}2
    {<<}{\textcolorsymb{<\kern0pt<}}2
    {::}{\textcolorsymb{::}}2
    % 3 (optionally)
    {>>=}{\textcolorsymb{>\kern0pt>=}}3
    {<<=}{\textcolorsymb{<\kern0pt<=}}3
    % Remove byte order mark
    {^^ef^^bb^^bf}{}0
}
\lstnewenvironment{cpp}{\lstset{style=cpp}}{}

\begin{document}
\begin{cpp}
long some_function();
int other_function(); 

/* This is a comment ()={}; */
int calling_function()
{
        long test1;
        int test2;

        a == b <= c >= d;
        a & b && c | d || e; 
        a ? b : c;
        a + b++, c - d--;
        a %= b % c >> e << f;
        a *= *c; d /= e;
        a / b ^ c ~ d;
        a <<= b, c >>= d;

        test1 = some_function();

        // this is another comment
        if (test1 > 0)
        {
                test2 = 0;   
        }
        else
        {
                test2 = other_function();
        }
        return test2;
}
\end{cpp}
\end{document}

The result with TeX Gyre Cursor (developed from Ghostscript's Cursor variant): \usepackage{lmodern} is replaced by \usepackage{tgcursor}.

Removal of the byte order mark

Byte order marks in UTF-8 can be removed by a properly configured editor. Or the literate feature can also be used to remove them, see above and here:

literate={^^ef^^bb^^bf{}0}

See Ulrike Fischer's answer to xport's question "How to suppress BOM effect in the output?".