I would like to be able to make a single word in a text look like a coded word. Is there any command such as \code{...}
which allows me to do so?
(basically, I want to produce something like above for the "\code{...}" part)
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Sign up to join this communityNormally a monospaced font is used for this. This is accomplished with \texttt{...}
. If you want to use code, you can use \def\code#1{\texttt{#1}}
. From that point on you can write \code{...}
to get monospaced output.
\newcommand{\code}[1]{\texttt{#1}}
as you're dealing with LaTeX. Even better \newcommand{\code}{\texttt}
, but this is quite advanced.
– egreg
Nov 24 '11 at 11:40
\mbox
around the \texttt
, to avoid the word being hyphenated if it happens to fall near the end of a line.
– Karl Ove Hufthammer
Nov 24 '11 at 11:51
If you want a single word to look like a coded word and also to have a light-gray background as in StackExchange you can predefine a color \definecolor{light-gray}{gray}{0.95}
and then define a new command: \newcommand{\code}[1]{\colorbox{light-gray}{\texttt{#1}}}
.
From this point on you can use \code{word}
to get mono-spaced words with gray background.
Of course for this to work you will need to load the xcolor
package before \definecolor
.
A full example would look like this:
% Better inline directory listings
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{light-gray}{gray}{0.95}
\newcommand{\code}[1]{\colorbox{light-gray}{\texttt{#1}}}
I can't believe nobody mentioned the listings
package. It provides a command called \lstinline{your_code}
which can even highlight keywords for you.
See also this question: Should I use \lstinline for the language keywords embedded in text?
\lstinline[⟨key=value list⟩]⟨character⟩⟨source code⟩⟨same character⟩
Also, some engines support a wider working range of working <character> delimiters. For exampe, I found ¿
to work with xelatex and not with pdflatex.
– l --marc l
Feb 18 '19 at 6:35
\verb|code|
or \verb#code#
also works. It creates characters in monospace, although its primary utility to enter commands that the compiler wont confuse as tex commands.
\verb
use |
or #
to start and end code rather than the usual {
and }
?
– user3728501
Nov 29 '16 at 14:52
{
and }
would need to be rendered as verbatim text).
– Alex Nelson
Aug 6 '18 at 13:44
texttt{}
how that is an unhuman command. How is anyone suppose to remember this? If you figure out what the ttt's stand for please tell me! – Charlie Parker Oct 15 '19 at 16:12texttt
stands for text teletype. Similarly there are for example\textrm
, where rm stands for roman, and\textsf
where sf stands for serif. – Dining Philosopher Jan 30 '20 at 13:56