What packages are you using for code representation / syntax highlighting in LATEX? "Verbatim" doesn't cut it, and I've had mixed results with the "lstlisting" package. Most of our code is written in Python, Bash, Perl but occasionally we chose do something special in pseudo-code and want to treat it like a formal language. For short turn around we have used custom color changing on each word we have wanted to change but this doesn't scale well/at-all.
I've tried several, but the listings package with it's lstlisting environment is the best I've seen. What "mixed" results have you had with it?
Hey,
I have tried the "minted" package and it was fine for me.
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minted/
Cheers,
Diogo
I would nevertheless suggest to use "listings". You can define custom languages with \lstdefinelanguage. Literate programming (listings manual section 5.4) may be useful for you, as well as the mathescape and escapechar parameters for the lstlisting environment. Or, if color is more important to you than the syntax of your language, how about fancyvrb?
The best place to discuss these issues are at TeX User Group (tug.org and similar country specific sites). You can try with `fancyvrb'
For C++, perl, bash, python, etc. I've had the best results with the listings package, but for pseudo-code I use algorithmcx, particularly because with it you still can use the pretty LaTeX math typesetting.
Generally for preparation of manuscript the corresponding package is supplied by the publisher, e.g, elasarticle for elsevier.
I've just used listing the other day and second the votes going that way - what didn't you like about it?
You can also use highlight. Highlight converts source code to formatted text with syntax highlighting.
http://www.andre-simon.de/
Listings are probably the best to embed some code in a LaTex document. For reference manuals in Latex, you can use doxygen: http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/
listings is the best to the best of my understanding. However, there are situation, like yours, where you have to define your own customized environment. You can create a program environment with all the features you can dream or imagine.
The listings package is the best solution, but not the only one possible. Have a look also to http://www.ctan.org/pkg/minted
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/listings
I agree with Pablo above: using lstlisting for code and algorithmic for pseudocode/algorithms.
I do recommend the minted package for programming code, it is simple to use and has many languages and styles included. However, I try, but this is not always possible, to avoid having the code shown inside a paper. Instead I use pseudocode which also be clear for readers that don't use the same programming language that I used in my work. I use algorithm2e to generate pseudo code.
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