Text Formatting ⇒ center a text in verbatim

[Tie]

Hello all,

I just have one line in verbatim:

\begin{verbatim}
the line
\end{verbatim}

And i would like to center it. It seems that \center, \centerline do not work here. I do not want to use minipage because the length of the line could change.

By the way, the reason why i insist to envelop a line within a verbatim is that i have other similar lines/paragraphs handled by verbatim. I would like to align their font size and face, etc.

Does anyone know the answer?

Thanks and regards

Tie CHENG

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Tie,

you could use \verb:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\centering
\verb|the line|
\end{document}

Stefan

[Tie]

Your solution works very well, thank you very much, Stefan!

[kerciyes]

I've just came across this problem. Why not use spaces to put text in middle in verbatim environment? Verbatim is basically what you see is what you get, isn't it? The proposed solution did not work for me as "\centering" centers everything afterwards. "{\centering \begin{Verbatim} ... } did not have any effect either.

[Ijon Tichy]

If you change the margins you would have to change the number of spaces. So this wouldn't be a good idea.

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\makeatletter
\newenvironment{centeredverbatim}{\expandafter\verbatim\centering}{\endverbatim}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{centeredverbatim}
Bimm
Verbatim
using
automatic \centering
This
Lines
\end{centeredverbatim}
\end{document}