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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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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How to avoid ligatures of double less equal sign in latex
I have lots of C++ code snippets in my article. Just see the following tex content and you'll get what I mean.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{xspace}
\NewDocumentCommand{...
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Tex dash ligatures in TT family with Lualatex
I'm just playing around, trying to get Latex output like what I used see from a typewriter. (I know about typewriter.sty.) I'm using \ttfamily and Lualatex.
Is there any way to get the Tex ligatures --...
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Text formatting, indent
How can I remove the indent after 'itemize'? I want 'algorithm 1...' to be written from the same place as header and first sentence.
Is there a better way than \qquad to format lines after 'Inputs:' ...
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Reducing type text font when \texttt is inside a \newcommand
I am trying to reduce the font size of \texttt{} only, but the problem is that when I do it, the whole text (except for the tt!!) is reduced.
My current packages are the below:
\usepackage{stfloats}
\...
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How to convert a quantitative article from the 1970s that was written on a typewriter to LaTeX math code?
Mathpix can convert formulas in journal articles into Mathjax/LaTeX code by scanning or taking a picture of them.
Is there a similar way to scan a journal article from the 1970s that was written on an ...
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How to automatically use typewriter font in arrays?
I'm trying to write a script on formal logic. The source code looks something like this:
some text...
\[
\begin{array}[]{c | c}
p & (\lnot p) \\ \hline
1 & 0 \\
0 & 1 \\
\end{...
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How can I use \texttt{some text} for the names of greek letters?
I want to write coefficients names as alpha_0, beta_1 and phi_1 using \texttt{...} to make it look like a function arguments.
I tried \texttt{alpha_0} but I got an error ! Missing $ inserted.<...
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How to prevent \texttt from making the text bold
I tried to escape the underscore character but the resultant "_" did not look perfect. Then I came across another answer suggesting to use \texttt. However, I see that \texttt is also ...
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Push \texttt in tcolorbox to a new line if it doesn't fit
So I use a colorbox with \texttt for inline code fragments, and as you can see from the picture below, the code fragments run off the page. What I would like is for the colorbox to appear on the next ...
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The most fancy way to write 2D array
I have something like
What's the best way to do it? I tried this method but it doesn't work.
\begin{array}{r}[[0.86455156], \\ [-0.82104237], \\ [4.12186079]]\end{array}
Getting,
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problem with symbol ^, kerkis-font and texttt
I want to write something like this SomeCode^MoreCode, so I wrote the code below.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{kerkis}
\begin{...
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Missing { / } inserted when using \texttt
I recently had to reinstall my tex environment (texlive under windows), and afterwards I got lots of "Missing { [or }] inserted" errors. I managed to track the cause down to the use of \...
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Is there an easy way to enter texttt mode, like $ for math mode?
When I want to refer to a math variable, say some index i, I simply surround it with dollars (i.e., $i$) as opposed to writing \begin{math}i\end{math}.
Is there some similar option for texttt mode, e....
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Monospaced numbers in invoice2
I am trying to make an invoice where the entries are all using ttfamily, in the invoice2 package, but can't seem to get the numbers (as opposed to the table text) in monospace. This is frustrating as ...
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How to detect teletype/typewriter mode
How do I detect whether or not I'm in teletype mode in LaTeX? I'm looking for something like \ifmmode or \mathpalette or \mathchoice.
Perhaps this is an xy problem, so let me give my original context:...
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Typewriter font for Korean language
A little while ago I asked some questions about the Greek language in LaTeX and got some excellent responses. In the same context I'm looking now to the Korean Language but I'm having problems setting ...
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Missing characters in Greek output due to `\ttfamily`
Unfortunately the next question in the series ASCII text set in Greek script when using \usepackage[greek]{babel} / Missing characters in output due to `\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}`
When ...
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How to emulate “typewriter” style?
[Not sure how to word this question exactly, please let me know if it is a duplicate.]
Many older scientific papers are set completely in "typewriter" style. Here is an equation that was set using ...
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Fira Mono is oblique not upright by default
I'm trying to use Fira Mono as my monospaced font, but when I compile my MWE (below) in XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX the font ends up in its oblique variant. What should I be doing differently?
\documentclass{...
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texttt in metropolis-beamer is sometimes in italic - XeLaTex and pdfLaTex [closed]
I'm using Overleaf and metropolis theme to create my presentation in beamer and there is something wrong with \texttt. When using XeLaTex for compilation, \texttt returns text in italic:
\...
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Use Roboto monospaced font for \url
I am using the Roboto font for section titles; I also want to use it for ttfamily kind of cases, such as \url, especially because it is more condensed than the default font. Looking at the font ...
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How to get monospace characters with pmboxdraw?
I want to have a monospace font for block characters, U+2580, U+2584, U+2588 (see below).
For those characters, I use pmboxdraw.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pmboxdraw}
\begin{document}\tiny\...
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How to use typewriter fonts in math mode? [duplicate]
How can we use teletypewriter fonts in math mode? In the following code, $X_i$ still comes italic and non-typewriter font. $\texttt{fnfoo(X_i)}$ gives errors "Missing $ inserted".
\documentclass{...
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Full Justification in ttfamily
Here is my MWE. I wish for text with full justification, that is
the text lines up perfectly with the right margin. I can not
find a simple answer to this, Please help.
\documentclass[oneside,12pt]{...
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Underscore is shorter for ttfamily
I'm struggling with the problem with underscores in a mono font.
It looks like it is shorter than other symbols.
For example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\ttfamily
Test \\
.------------....
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Shaded verbatim and fragile frame [duplicate]
I have a beamer class file, with a plenty of frames.
Almost all frames need the option [fragile] because I frequently use \verb| | to illustrate codes.
So I want the frame to be equipped with [...
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How could one have typewriter (monospaced) numbers throughout a document (LuaLaTeX)
I would like to have all numbers in a typewriter (monospace) font throughout my document, but maintain the usual serif font for everything else.
See column A in the picture below (which was kindly ...
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Defining a “narrowized” font for \setmonofont{}
Because of Corporate Design rules, I need to use the font SourceCodePro for monospaced text and Arial for plain text. Using KOMA Script, I declared
\setmainfont{Arial}
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{\...
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Change font size in verbatim and Verbatim using scaling
This question is closely related to several other questions here, but I believe it hasn't been asked (or answered) exactly like this.
Is it possible to change the font size in verbatim and Verbatim ...
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Proper linebreaks in teletype font
In my bibliography, I want to include report numbers of technical reports in teletype font. These report numbers typically consist of several blocks of letters and numbers connected by hyphens, like ...
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MakeIndex indexing \texttt{} under “Symbols” and not by letter
I've began adding an index to my Latex project using imakeidx and have run into a small problem:
When writing the code
\index{\texttt{float} data type}
my index shows up as the following:
It is ...
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Change size of Python code in LaTeX document
I am trying to input my Python code in a document using this template which uses the listings package. However I want to change the size of the code font i.e. any mentions of \texttt{} and the ...
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Disappearing left quotation mark in `\texttt{}` when using babel (norwegian)
When using the package babel with the norwegian option (\usepackage[norsk]{babel}), double-quotation marks (") in \texttt{} disappear if they occur before certain letters (e.g., b, d, and f), but not ...
