Hi, I have a problem with using lstlisting. Well, there is too much padding (space between the border and the text) there:
http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/css_padding.asp (just to make sure that we're on the same page about what I'm talking about).
I want to minimize this padding to 2pt (or some other number). Do you have any idea how would I do that?
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- localghost
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lstlisting and padding
Take a look at Section 4.10 (Margins and line shape, p. 33f) and Section 4.11 (Frames, p. 34ff) of the listings manual.
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Thorsten¹
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Thorsten¹
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lstlisting and padding
Hi, I've tried most of the options listed there but without the effect, here's the lstset that I'm using:
Any ideas why it doesn't work?
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\lstset {
language=c++, % language code
basicstyle=\footnotesize, % font size
numbers=none, % where to put line numbers
numberstyle=\footnotesize, % numbers size
numbersep=5pt, % how far the line numbers are from the code
backgroundcolor=\color{white}, % background color
showspaces=false, % show spaces (with underscores)
showstringspaces=false, % underline spaces within strings
showtabs=false, % show tabs using underscores
frame=single, % adds a frame around the code
tabsize=4, % default tabsize
breaklines=true, % automatic line breaking
columns=fullflexible,
breakautoindent=false,
framerule=1pt,
xleftmargin=0pt,
xrightmargin=0pt,
breakindent=0pt,
resetmargins=true
}
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lstlisting and padding
Use options like framesep introduced in Section 4.11 of the manual.
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lstlisting and padding
Hi,
I don't know if the problem is solved but I encountered a similar issue and I solved it by writing \noindent before to include my listing.
I'm now encountering an other issue I can't solve. I have a listing side by side with an explanation. I use the minipage to display my boxes, I wrote something like this :
Everything is almost fine, but the base line of the listing is under the base line of the text and its looks ugly.
Here are my settings :
If I update \lstset and write "frame=tb" I get a line on the top ... and the base line is correct.
If I remove it, it goes wrong again. Like if a special framesep is added when no frame is used ?
I got a working solution by writing aboveskip=-8pt ... but I'm not satisfied with this hack.
Did I got wrong somewhere or did I missed an other parameter of the lstlisting package ?
Best Regards,
Pierre.
I don't know if the problem is solved but I encountered a similar issue and I solved it by writing \noindent before to include my listing.
I'm now encountering an other issue I can't solve. I have a listing side by side with an explanation. I use the minipage to display my boxes, I wrote something like this :
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\noindent
\begin{minipage}[t]{.43\linewidth}
\begin{lstlisting}
digraph aGraph {
some other code
}
\end{lstlisting}
\end{minipage}
\hspace{.02\linewidth}
\begin{minipage}[t]{.54\linewidth}
some text
\end{minipage}
\hfill
Here are my settings :
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\lstdefinelanguage{dot}{keywords={digraph, label, ....},sensitive=true}
\lstset{language=dot, caption={Graphviz}, label={listing:Graphviz}, basicstyle=\small, captionpos=b, aboveskip=0pt, frame=b, tabsize=2, framesep=0pt, framexbottommargin=8pt}
If I remove it, it goes wrong again. Like if a special framesep is added when no frame is used ?
I got a working solution by writing aboveskip=-8pt ... but I'm not satisfied with this hack.
Did I got wrong somewhere or did I missed an other parameter of the lstlisting package ?
Best Regards,
Pierre.