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I am currently using the code

 \newsavebox{\FVerbB}
\newenvironment{code}
 {\VerbatimEnvironment
 \hspace{-0.25cm}
  \begin{lrbox}{\FVerbB}
  \hspace{-0.29cm}
  \begin{BVerbatim}}
 {\end{BVerbatim}
 \hspace{-0.29cm}
  \end{lrbox}
  \fcolorbox{blue!0}{gray!30}{\usebox{\FVerbB}}
  }

I have decreased the horizontal size of the box by adding hspace{-0.29cm}. I would like to do something similar for the vertical size of the box...i.e. I would like to include a vspace{-0.1cm} somewhere in this code, but I can't figure out where to put it. Any suggestions? Thanks so much in advance!

Update: the suggestions for the vertical resizing have worked brilliantly. But I have run into an issue with the box extending too far out in front of the enclosed text. Below is an example.

Current Output

I don't like that there is no space before the word "is". Any thoughts on how to fix this? Thanks so much!

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  • If I try, I get that the background is too narrow. Can you explain more precisely your goal?
    – egreg
    Commented Jul 28, 2014 at 14:45
  • If you just want to vertically shift the box (as opposed to resizing it), the following substitution will achieve that: \fcolorbox{blue!0}{gray!30}{\raisebox{0.1cm}{\usebox{\FVerbB}}}. If you want to actually resize a box, the \addvbuffer macro of the verbatimbox package can do that (under certain constraints), but it is not clear, as egreg notes, what exactly you are trying to accomplish.
    – Steven B. Segletes
    Commented Jul 28, 2014 at 15:07

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You have some trailing spaces in your code. However, I suppose you are looking for something like this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\newenvironment{code}
 {\VerbatimEnvironment
  \begin{SaveVerbatim}{VerbEnv}}
 {\end{SaveVerbatim}%
   \fboxsep=1pt   
   \fcolorbox{black}{gray!30}{\BUseVerbatim{VerbEnv}}}
\begin{document}
\begin{code}
fog
\end{code}

\end{document}

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Use \colorbox instead of \fcolorbox if you do not want a frame.

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  • Thank you so much for this reply @Herbert! Your code worked wonderfully. I do have two questions though: (1) when I use the text box, any spacing that comes immediately after it becomes erased, i.e. <foo in box> some text is just <foo in box>some text. (2) Latex gives me an error if I write \begin{code} foo \end{code}. I have to put \begin{code} and \end{code} on separate lines. Do you know why this is? Thanks so much for the help though - I'm still new to Latex and Stackexchange, so please forgive me if I have made some obvious mistakes.
    – user56010
    Commented Jul 28, 2014 at 17:01
  • use \colorbox{gray!30}{\BUseVerbatim{VerbEnv}}\space}. That depends on how verbatim is read. LaTeX looks for a line with end{...}. If you want inline code then use \verb or \lstinline from package listings
    – user2478
    Commented Jul 28, 2014 at 17:29

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