Questions tagged [listings]
{listings} is a package that extends LaTeX's {verbatim} features. A variety of syntax highlighting options are available. For general questions about {verbatim} or {highlighting} use the respective tag. For the unrelated concept of list structures, use {lists} instead.
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What can I use to typeset MATLAB code in my document?
This question led to a new package:
matlab-prettifier
Does anybody have a quick and easy way to typeset some relatively long MATLAB code in the appendix? I looked up a few methods, and the mcode ...
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The 'listings' package and UTF-8
Please, do you know if there's any possibility how to use the listings package together with XeLaTeX? I have to use XeLaTeX and therefore I have UTF-8 encoded files. This is not compatible with ...
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Having problems with listings and UTF-8. Can it be fixed?
I'm having some problems with listings and UTF-8 in my document. Maybe someone can help me? Some characters work, like é and ó, but á and others appear at the beginning of words...
\documentclass[...
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Highlight text in code listing while also keeping syntax highlighting
I’m using the listings package for code listings. Now I try to highlight some part of the code using \hl from the soul package.
Here’s an example of a resulting query where the injected part of a SQL ...
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How can I highlight some lines from source code?
I am preparing a presentation (using beamer) and I'll need to include many snippets of source-code. For including source code, I'll probably use listings package. (I know there is also minted package, ...
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Syntax Coloring in LaTeX
Is there any way to include Python code in a LaTeX file and automatically color its syntax? Is it possible to do syntax coloring with any other language? If yes what packages can I use to do that?
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Using \ttfamily with \bfseries (or how to enable bold in fixed-width font)
I'm using listings package, and I've added basicstyle=\ttfamily\footnotesize. However, when I do that, the keywords from the embedded source-code are not bold anymore.
I figured that \ttfamily ...
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lstlisting line wrapping
How is it possible to let lstlisting wrap lines?
I've troubles with following block:
\begin{lstlisting}[language=java]
public class MeasureStationControllerV0Test {
MeasureStationControllerV0 ...
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Listings package: How can I format all numbers?
I want to highlight all the numbers appearing in an input code of a certain program by, for example, coloring them. By numbers I mean integer, rational and floating point numbers. I am trying with the ...
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How to highlight Python syntax in LaTeX Listings \lstinputlistings command
I am using package listings to import my Python source code into my LaTeX document. I use the command \lstinputlistings. I have a Python source like
class Child(Parent):
def __init__(self, *args, *...
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Can't insert code in my beamer slide
I want to put some PHP code in my slide with the package listings but I have this error message:
Argument of \frame has an extra }.<inserted text>\par }
My latex code :
\documentclass{beamer}...
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How to center a listing?
I'm trying to get some console output in my homework. I put it in a listings environment but I want it to be centered horizontally on the page.
The only thing I get centered is the caption ;-/
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How to make listings code indentation remain unchanged when copied from PDF?
So I am using listings package for code examples. But there is a problem. When I copy the code examples from the final PDF document, they are usually not the same - the indentation is gone, there are ...
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How to make overlay still work inside lstlisting environment?
Problem
I want to explain C# programming language step by step using overlay in beamer.cls. But it does NOT works as shown in the following figure.
How to solve this problem?
Code Snippet
\...
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Extend a language with additional keywords?
I'm using listings and I want to extend a language with additional keywords for highlightning. I know there is an option morekeywords available, but that only works for a particular lstset declaration ...
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Problem with literate and breaklines=true in listings package
As the title says, the option breaklines=true seems to have an undesired interaction when using literate; in the following example the closing parenthesis doesn't get colorized
\documentclass{...
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Coloring digits with the listings package
I'm trying to typeset some python code, and I would like integer literals to be highlighted. I've come up, after about two hours of fighting with the documentation and various other questions here and ...
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lstlisting in a newenvironment
I have a problem with the lstlisting package. I want to define an \newenvironment with one obligatory parameter, which will be the caption name for the lstlisting. I will also have other lstlisting ...
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How can I change the color of digits when using the listings package?
I'm using the listings package and was already able to modify the color of the keywords and almost all elements I was interested in. The only thing that remains is the color of the digits. I'd like to ...
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How can I define a custom listing environment?
I am trying to define an enviroment for a specific programming language, F#. Here's my code:
\definecolor{bluekeywords}{rgb}{0.13,0.13,1}
\definecolor{greencomments}{rgb}{0,0.5,0}
\definecolor{...
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Why can lstlisting not be saved in a command?
This code fails with Emergency stop:
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{listings}
\newcommand{\demo}{%
\begin{lstlisting}
foobar
\end{lstlisting}
}
\begin{document}
\demo
\end{document}
Why?
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Creating a zebra effect using listings
This question led to a new package:
lstlinebgrd (lstaddons bundle)
Friends, consider the following example using the listings package:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{...
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language option supported in listings
I am afraid that listing doesn't support javascript.
\begin{lstlisting}[language=javascript]
...
\end{lstlisting}
What am I doing wrong?
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How to automatically skip leading white spaces in listings
This question led to a new package:
lstautogobble (lstaddons bundle)
For my programming lecture slides I heavily use the listings package with \lstnewenvironment to typeset source code. It's a ...
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Escaping in \lstinline
There are several options for escaping LaTeX code in the lstlisting-environment. But this doesn't seem to work in \lstinline. I'd like to do something like this:
\lstinline[escapechar=§]{§\textlangle§...
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How to copy/paste multiple spaces from lstlistings?
This is a continuation of a question that I asked already: How to copy/paste from lstlistings?.
The solution presented there does not work if the text within the lstlistings environment contains ...
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Textcase, Listings, and Tilde
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage{textcase}
\RequirePackage{listings}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\begin{document}
\MakeTextLowercase{A~B}
\end{document}
LaTeX ...
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\listings code style for HTML5 (CSS, HTML, JavaScript)
I would like to create a code style for HTML5 that can be used with the \listings package.
An HTML5 document consists of three languages: CSS, HTML and JavaScript. That makes the whole thing a bit ...
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Strange character when using listings package
I'm seeing an odd character like a very flat U, where there should be a space, with the listings package. See example below. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening, or how to get rid or work ...
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set the font family for lstlisting
I have the following set up for my listings :
\lstset{basicstyle=\footnotesize,breaklines=true}
\lstset{framextopmargin=50pt,frame=bottomline}
I would like to change the font family to Courier. How ...
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Is there a LaTeX trick to prevent a PDF viewer from copying the line number?
A PDF output is obtained by compiling the following code.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset
{
language={[LaTeX]TeX},
numbers=left,
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How to insert code with accents with listings?
I'm trying to insert source code in LaTeX with using listings, but my code has accents and pdflatex gives me this error:
Unicode char \u8:�\expandafter not set up for use with LaTeX.
This is a code ...
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Using bold/italic text inside listings?
How can I use bold text inside a code listing? I wanted to make some parts of the code bold.
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tcolorbox - list of listings?
In a book with figures, tables and listings, I figured out that all listings and some tables and figures look better when presented in a tcolorbox. The book has the usual tables of contents:
\...
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Unwanted White Lines in listings environment
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{color}
\begin{document}
\definecolor{light-gray}{gray}{0.95}
\lstset{basicstyle=\ttfamily\footnotesize,
backgroundcolor=\color{light-gray},...
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Recent issues with lstlinebgrd package with listings after the latter's update[September 02,2018]
I could run the program without any problem while highlighting few lines of code using listings and lstlinebgrd packages. But the recent update of listings package v1.7 is giving me error even on the ...
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Adding background color to \verb or \lstinline command without \Colorbox
Update:
In addition to my previous post, here's a screenshot to give you a better visual example. This was created with HTML and CSS for demo only.
In CSS, the code part is made using font-family: ...
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How to redefine \lstinline to automatically highlight or draw frames around all inline code snippets?
How to redefine \lstinline to automatically highlight or draw frames around all inline code snippets? E.g. using \bh and \eh commands from Highlight text in code listing while also keeping syntax ...
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How to format an inline source code
I have a document where I quiet often refer to source code element, such as class names, I wanted to format these strings differently, but at the beginning I didn't want to fiddle with various options ...
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XML syntax highlighting
I use the following code to include some XML code:
\lstset{language=XML}
\begin{lstlisting}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xs:schema attributeFormDefault="unqualified" ...
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How to improve listings display of JSON files?
I was wondering if there is a good way for JSON files to be listed with the listings package.
The only language definition I could come up with, is this:
\lstdefinelanguage{json}
{
morestring=[b]...
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How to have straight single quotes in lstlistings
All single quotes in code samples are displayed as backticks and the copy-pasted code can't be compiled without fixing the quotation. Is it possible to prevent this?
for example:
\documentclass{...
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Phantom spaces in listings
I have a problem with SQL code in a PDF document. For code representation I'm using the listings package. Everything works perfect until I copy-paste that code from the created PDF document. I get ...
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Defining `lstset` parameters for multiple languages
I am using the listings package, and have defined lstset parameter sets for multiple programming languages. I would like to select a parameter set when beginning a lstlisting or lstinputlisting by ...
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How best to include programming source code in LaTeX documents? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Syntax Coloring in LaTeX
I'm relatively new to LaTeX, and am starting to use it for academic paper writing. I'm doing a lot of computer programming as part of my academic work,...
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How to make listings code correct copyable from PDF and with hyperlink
If I generate listings code with line numbers and copy the result from the PDF I can not use it again as tex code. First the line numbers are included which they should not, second spaces are included ...
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Colored background in inline listings
I would like to make inline code more distinguishable from the text surrounding it, and I thought that using a background might work (like it is done on the stackexchange pages.)
Since I use the ...
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How to show similar display of codes of different programming languages in LaTeX
I am very new to LaTeX and I am writing my thesis. In a chapter, I want to show my codes, which are in Mathematica.
I use the listings package as follows:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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Including sections of source code as a listing, while being robust to source code edits
Is there a way to input particular sections of source code using \lstinputlisting (from the listings package) in a flexible way? It's possible to use the firstline and lastline options to input ...
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How to center a lstlisting
I have the following problem. I want to center a listing, I tried this approach: How to center a listing?
It works but when I try to set frame or numbers specifically for each listing I get errors. ...
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