Questions tagged [typewriter]
{typewriter} is the term used for a "monospaced" font, that is, a font in which all characters have the same width.
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Can I switch to Consolas for \texttt?
For part of my documentation I want my \texttt to use a fixed-spacing font that slashes its zeroes. The default font LaTeX uses for the purpose (Courier New, I suppose) does not. I'm used to ...
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Different appearence of typewriter font in algorithm2e procedure
Let's say we have a procedure in which we want to iterate over an object whose data type we want to specify by writing it in texttt font.
I tried
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{algorithm2e}
\...
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How to Obtain Typewriter Font Small Caps
I am using (in this case) the lmvtt font.
Consider the code
\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\LARGE
{\fontfamily{lmvtt}\selectfont{How to Obtain Typewriter Font Smallcaps}}
\...
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Force horizontal spacing for a character
How can I force the spacing of a character?
I tried using a zero-width box, but its content gets shifted to the left (not sure why).
\documentclass{minimal}\usepackage{fancyvrb}\textwidth=9cm
\begin{...
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How to Improve the Appearance of Aligned Typewriter Text in a Minipage
Consider the code:
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{microtype}
%\usepackage{ragged2e}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{center}
\begin{LARGE}
\begin{minipage}{5.75in}\leftskip\...
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Why UM Typewriter font not working properly?
I compiled this code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{minted, fontspec}
\setmonofont{UM Typewriter} %% <--- some problems here (see the next comment). To solve comment it out.
\begin{document}...
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Highlighting Monospaced Text
When using monospaced fonts, all characters are supposed to have identical width, including the space character/spacebar. But when highlighting monospaced text using the hl command via the soul ...
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Greek letter in text, in courier font
I am able to display the Greek letter θ (the only one I am interested in) in text mode, thanks to \usepackage[euler]{textgreek}. I just copy and paste θ into my text, and it looks fine. Now I want it ...
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How to Produce a Continuous Emdash with Pdflatex Using Texttt
I would like to know how one might extend the answer given in How to Produce an Unbroken Emdash with Texttt ---which requires fontspec; and thus, either lualatex or xelatex---that is applicable when ...
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How to Produce an Unbroken Emdash with Texttt
MWE:
\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
\Large
\thispagestyle{empty}
emdash---
\vspace*{25pt}
Now, with the texttt command: \, \texttt{emdash---}
\end{document}
which gives:
How may I produce ...
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How can I simulate the draft mode of a 9-pin dot matrix printer?
How can I get LaTeX to make its output look like it was printed with the draft mode of a 9-pin dot matrix printer, such as the classic Epson FX-80? The upper part of the following illustration, taken ...
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\string\noindent outputs a quotation mark " instead of a backslash \
I used \string\noindent to output a command \noindent, but the result is "noindent.
I also tried with \verb|\noindent| and \texttt{\noindent}, but the results are the same.
I found a question may ...
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How might one print the \tt prime character while in taocpmac's begintt mode?
I am using \begintt and \endtt from Knuth's taocpmac.tex and I would like to typeset the prime character, not the apostrophe. My code looks something like this:
\input taocpmac
\begintt
a' = a + 1
\...
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Change the font inside `tabular` globally, in LaTeX Beamer (metropolis)
I have a presentation in beamer with the metropolis theme. All the content of all tables should be written in mono/typewriter font. Ideally I would prefer to make the change globally, inside the ...
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Should I Use Sans Serif Fonts for Section Headers and Monospace Fonts for URLs
The font I use is Latin Modern.
I want to know if I should use sans serif family for the section headers.
Some people suggest to use sans serif for section headers but to me it looks a bit weird and ...
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Hyphenate \texttt
Before anyone says anything, yes, of course I've seen this. But, it's not what I want.
What I'm looking for is basically a way to either alter the way \texttt works, or a new command that works just ...
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Space before the "?", normally unbreakable with babel-french, breakable with listings' breaklines option
With babel-french, the space before the question mark is normally unbreakable.
But, as shown by the MWE below (compiled with pdflatex, xelatex or lualatex), the breaklines option of the listings ...
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Latin Modern under T1 encoding, "lighttt" setting, and "lmtt/m/sl" in place for italic: Error at apostrophe "\textquotesingle"
The MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[lighttt]{lmodern}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\ttfamily
\DeclareFontFamily{T1}{lmtt}{}
\DeclareFontShape{T1}{lmtt}{m}{it}{
<-> ssub * lmtt/m/sl
}{}
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Package alltt does not typeset double quoting marks
For a report I would like to typeset HOL4 code in tt font with the alltt environment.
My code includes U+201C Left Double Quotation Mark and U+201D Right Double Quotation Mark.
The alltt environment ...
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Why does \texttt not work on braces?
Why does \texttt not work on \textbraceleft or \{? Is there any solution to solve this?
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\texttt{\textbraceleft} \texttt{\{} \verb|{|
\end{...
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What's the best way to deal with large pieces of text like keywords, camel cased words, namespaces, etc [duplicate]
I'm writing a text which has a lot of long Redis keys and camel cased text (like class names). This could be extended to long keywords and namespaces too. I want to accentuate these in way, so I'm ...
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Redefine \texttt{} to allow underscore
I use underscore inside \texttt{} quite often to represent python functions, and I get quite tired of escaping every single underscore with \_. I tried the following to redefine the \texttt{} command ...
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How to change text color with typewriter package?
How to change the text color when the typewriter package is loaded?
Currently, with this MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{typewriter}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\color{red}
\begin{document}
\...
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How to use the typewriter package "locally"?
Is there a way to enclose the effects of the typewriter package locally, into an enviroment for exemple as suggested by @Phelype Oleinik's comment in a related question (with something like \...
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How to do a left double quote that looks right both as monospaced and non-monospaced fonts?
As best I can tell, if I want a correct left double quote mark:
in all non-monospaced fonts I must do ``X
in all monospaced fonts I must do "X
In my case this is an issue because I have a macro ...
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fontspec + JuliaMono: missing glyphs in LuaLaTeX compared to XeLaTeX
I am trying to typeset a document that contains monospaced text with Greek-letter Unicode glyphs, e.g. alpha, beta, etc. To do so, I'm using the JuliaMono font, which has extensive support for mathy ...
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Adjust relative font size of *all* monospaced text?
By default, LaTeX makes monospaced text rather large relative to the default serif ("roman") text. This is especially pronounced when choosing custom fonts, e.g.
\usepackage{fouriernc}
\...
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Line not breaking when combining inline math and \texttt
Sadly, I am not able to recreate a MWE since I'm working on a fairly complex template. I cannot understand how LaTeX decides to break lines, I googled but I couldn't find a clear cut answer. This is ...
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How can I save and restore fontdimen parameters?
I am using the fontdimen code in this answer to make spaces stretch in inline code samples (credit to Stefan Kottwitz):
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newcommand*\justify{%
\...
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Text runs off right margin with \texttt{}
I asked this question earlier and it was linked to other questions and considered closed. I've checked the answers to the linked questions and they don't answer my question so I'm trying again. The ...
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Selectively disable a ligature in pdflatex + newtxtext
I had a wonderfully working setup with LuaLaTeX, but my publisher demands I use PDFLaTeX and newtxtext.
This, however, replaces ">>" in monospaced text with "»" which looks ...
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May I label with a monospaced typeface?
Say I have an enumerate environment like
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb, amsthm, enumitem, graphicx, hyperref, latexsym, babel, blindtext, thmtools}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\...
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Use the bold typewriter font from lmodern for keywords in listings but keep Computer Modern fonts in the rest of document in LaTeX
I am writing a document in LaTeX using the standard Computer Modern fonts. The text is mainly in Russian but it includes some listings. I prefer to typeset listings using the standard typewriter font (...
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typewriter font in times new roman
Given,
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{times}
\begin{document}
This is textual typewriter {\tt Angry Hyena kills Lion to save her baby}
This is mathematical typewriter ${\tt Angry~...
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libertinus-otf does not print straight quotes in verbatim environment
Consider the following LuaLaTeX document:
% arara: lualatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{libertinus-otf}
\setmonofont{CascadiaCod3-Light.otf} % from cascadia-code package on CTAN
\begin{...
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\texttt and breaking in justified paragraphs
When a monospace segment is used within an otherwise variable-width justified paragraph, very often the monospaced part is wrapped "one word too late", resulting in many lines being overfull ...
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How to edit .bst file to use texttt typewriter font?
I'm using the scrreprt document class and BibTeX, Version 0.99d with apsrev4-2 for by bibliography. I'd like to modify my local .bst file such that the eprint field is printed with the \texttt ...
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Allow arbitrary linebreaks in \texttt formatted text
My document is a mixture of regular text and code, where I format the code with \texttt{}. To make this a little easier, I added a new command:
\newcommand {\ttt} {\texttt}
so now I just write, \ttt{...
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Typesetting mathematical unicode characters in typewriter font
This is a followup to this answer:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/593973/27523
it suggests using the
\DeclareUnicodeCharacter
command to use Unicode source characters.
Now the problem is that I use ...
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Newcommand without extra spacing [duplicate]
Defining a new command as \newcommand{\boo}{\texttt{boo}} and then using it in the text as \boo removes the space after boo and the next word. This is fine if the next word happens to be a period, ., ...
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Missing $ inserted when use \texttt [duplicate]
I have this simple code:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
% amsmath package, useful for mathematical formulas
\usepackage{amsmath}
% amssymb package, useful for mathematical symbols
\usepackage{amssymb}
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How do I detokenize '\texttt{%>%}'
I have a command:
\newcommand{\help}[2]{
\href{https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/#1/functions/#2}{\texttt{?\detokenize{#2}}}
}
and another
\newcommand{\code}[1]{\texttt{\detokenize{#1}}}
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how can I change an arbitrary portion of my document to monospaced/typewriter font in xetex?
I want to put arbitrary portions of my text into a font that looks like it came out of a 1960s manual typewriter. In particular, each character must occupy a column, identical in width to all other ...
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Define \textunderscore to mimic look of standard underscore
I noticed that the look of the underscore _ differs greatly from the look of \textunderscore
How can I redefine \textunderscore to look like the standard underscore of the set font? I want to avoid ...
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Text in monospaced font being compressed
When there're too many characters in a line, the white spaces are being compressed so as to fit in those texts. Normally this is fine. But now since I'm using a monospaced font and I wish to keep the ...
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Modify hyphenation behavior for texts in monospaced font
I'm using a monospaced font and with some effort I got it hyphenated. However the hyphenation behavior is quite strange and the right side of the document is ugly.
Is there a way to force it always ...
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Combining Wrapping \texttt{} with Sections and TOC - Improper alphabetic constant
Was working on getting line wrapping working for code, and came across a solution which was working for me - until I tried to add a table of contents to my code. The issue seems to be with using the ...
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Underline text with === (SETEX style)
I'm trying to recreate the typewriter look.
How to make \underline{sometext} work like SETEX-style section marker?
The intended use is with monospaced/typewriter fonts for lines with plenty of space ...
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typewritten to Latex
I have a math book from the '60s in PDF. It's typewritten and I found it harder to read than a Latex edition, but couldn't find any modern edition.
Is there an app or site or some way to transform it ...
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Awful text wrap with \ttfamily
This might be a silly question but I cannot find a way to solve it. Below is a MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\ttfamily
What ...
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