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I'm making a presentation about LaTeX using the beamer package (v3.10). I'm using the listings (v1.4) package to print pieces of latex source code and highlight the keywords.

It seems that the following minimal example can't compile :

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[english,french]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{language=[LaTeX]tex}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[fragile]
\begin{lstlisting}
\begin{frame}
\titlepage
\end{frame}
\end{lstlisting}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Using latexmk with the latexila editor, I got this error :

Missing } inserted

Whereas, using pdftex with the latexila editor, I got a more verbose output :

\begin{lstlisting} on input line 1 ended by \end{beamer@framepauses}.
Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup
\begin{lstlisting} on input line 1 ended by \end{beamer@frameslide}.
Undefined control sequence
Package Listings Error: Extra \endlstlisting
\begin{beamer@framepauses} on input line 17 ended by \end{lstlisting}.
Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup
\begin{beamer@framepauses} on input line 17 ended by \end{document}.
You can't use `\end' in internal vertical mode
\begin{beamer@framepauses} on input line 17 ended by \end{document}.

After some research, It seems that even with the [fragile] option passed on to \frame, there is a problem with the last line of the quoted code : \end{frame}.

One workaround is to indent from at least one space this line :

\begin{lstlisting}
\begin{frame}
\titlepage
 \end{frame}
\end{lstlisting}

My conclusion is : a line in the lstlisting environment cannot start with \end{frame}. Did I do something wrong ?

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beamer does a lot of leg work when setting the frame environment, since it might have to parse the contents more than once in order to take seemingly single slides and break them into number of frames. As a safe bet, you can box the contents of your listing outside the frame and then include the pre-typeset box:

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\documentclass{beamer}% http://ctan.org/pkg/beamer
\usepackage{listings}% http://ctan.org/pkg/listings
\lstset{language=[LaTeX]tex}
\newsavebox{\codebox}% For storing listings

\begin{document}

\begin{lrbox}{\codebox}
\begin{lstlisting}
\begin{frame}
\titlepage
\end{frame}
\end{lstlisting}
\end{lrbox}

\begin{frame}
\usebox{\codebox}
\end{frame}

\end{document}​
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  • Thank you for your answer. I didn't know all these "box" commands ! Indeed, it works but I face some issues since I use listings inside itemize environment : my savebox inserted is too wide.It seems that there is no option to set width using the lrbox environment. I tried with the savebox command, but I didn't succeed... Any idea ?
    – remjg
    Sep 23, 2012 at 11:30
  • I answer my own question, I can change manually the line width inside lrbox environment. For example : \setlength{\linewidth}{0.9\linewidth}
    – remjg
    Sep 23, 2012 at 11:39
  • @RémiG.: Here it is better to specify the width as an optional argument to lstlisting's linewidth key-value. That is, use something like \begin{lstlisting}[linewidth=.9\textwidth].
    – Werner ♦
    Sep 23, 2012 at 16:04
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If you use the "containsverbatim" option instead of "fragile" your minimal example works:

\begin{frame}[containsverbatim]{test}
\begin{lstlisting}
\begin{frame}
\titlepage
\end{frame}
\end{lstlisting}
\end{frame}

I found the solution in this post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2981008/latex-issue-with-beamer-and-listings

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