"<" sign in italics in LaTeX

Question

I need to put expressions containing "<" and ">" sign in italics. For example, GenericPositive

However, when I do

\textit{GenericPositive<Type>}

it does not display the "<" or ">" signs. I also tried to add a slash so:

\textit{GenericPositive\<Type\>}

but it doesn't work either. What is more, I also tried the math mode with "$" signs so:

$GenericPositive$

and it does display the "<", ">" signs but then the whole expression gets split between different lines of text and I don't want that to happen.

What can I do to see "<" and ">" in an expression in italics in such a way that this expression is not split between different lines of text?

Answer 1

I take it that you use pdfLaTeX and the "original", aka OT1, font encodings.

I have two suggestions:

• If, for some reason, you can't or mustn't switch to the newer T1 font encoding, you could write

  \textit{GenericPositive\textless Type\textgreater}
  

• As @daleif has already noted in a comment, the problem vanishes if you include the instruction

  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  

  in the preamble.

Answer 2

It seems to me that you want to typeset source code. If that is the case I would highly recommend to use a specialized package for that like minted. Please note that minted depends on python and pygments and therefore requires the -shell-escape flag as described in sections 2.1 and 3.1 of it's documentation.

I don't know what language you want to use so I am inserting a LaTeX example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{minted}

\setminted{autogobble, breaklines}

\begin{document}
A block of code:
\begin{minted}{latex}
    \documentclass{beamer}

    \begin{document}
    \begin{frame}
    \begin{center}
        \uncover<+->{Hello}
        \uncover<+->{World}
    \end{center}
    \end{frame}
    \end{document}
\end{minted}

Or inline:
\mintinline{latex}{\uncover<+->{Hello}}
\end{document}