Text Formatting ⇒ framebox using colored background, verbatim text & shadow

[phitex]

Hi all

I am looking for a simple way to define a newcommand that formats my source code the following way.

like this (ceated with ms-word):

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• light yellow background
• verbatim text
• possibility to write some words in bold or italic
• black border around the box, which is right and left double as thick that looks like a light shadow.

I have found

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\lstset{%
  backgroundcolor=\color{codeBackground},%
  frame=single,%
  mathescape=true,%
}

(where codeBackground is defined before.)

This produces the following output:

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which does nearly what I need, but I want to have no white lines between the text lines and I dont want to have any other formatting than bold an italic.

Any Idea?

Thanks in advance.

φ

[cgnieder]

Would you mind posting a complete minimal working example? With the code you posted so far it is not possible to reproduce the example you give and it's quite tedious to figure out everything by oneself...

Besides: what do you me by “I want to have no white lines between the text lines”? I can see no white lines?!

Maybe you can use this minimal working example as a starting point for your's so we can use it to help you?

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings,xcolor}
\colorlet{codeBackground}{yellow!20}
\lstset{%
  backgroundcolor=\color{codeBackground},%
  frame=single,%
  mathescape=true,%
}
\begin{document}

\begin{lstlisting}
public class Test {
  public static void main(String[] argumente) {
    System.out.printIn("Hallo Welt!");
  }
}
\end{lstlisting}

\end{document}

Regards

[mas]

Besides: what do you me by “I want to have no white lines between the text lines”? I can see no white lines?!

The white lines can be seen clearly if you change the color. I used this

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\colorlet{codeBackground}{red!80!black}

The gap between lines is not filled with the color.

Regards.

[phitex]

Hello everybody

Thanks for your recent answers.
The white lines are not visible in the dvi. But I can see them after processing to pdf.

But this is not the main problem.

The main issue is to have plain verbatim text but using bold and italic where "I" want to have it, and not where "lstlisting" proposes.

A second problem is the shadow of the box which can not be produced using lstlisting?? I have triede a bit using SaveVerbatim and BUseVerbatim, but without any success.


Here the complete minimal listing:

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\documentclass[twoside,12pt,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{color,fancyvrb,fancybox}
\usepackage{listings}

\definecolor{codeBackground}{rgb}{0.9, 0.9, 0.8}

%%\lstset{language=Java}%

\lstset{%
  backgroundcolor=\color{codeBackground},%
  frame=single,%
  mathescape=true,%
}

\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}
public class Test {
  public static void main(String[] argumente) {
    System.out.println("Hallo Welt!");
  }
}
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}

[cgnieder]

I would probably combine listings with mdframed. Use the former to format the code and the latter to format background and frame. The mdframed documentation shows many examples for the formatting of frame/background/shadow...

listings provides the command \lstnewenvironment that we can use to create a new custom listings environment. For the highlighting wherever and whenever you want you can use listings' moredelim option.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings,mdframed,xcolor}

\definecolor{codeBackground}{rgb}{0.9, 0.9, 0.8}
\lstnewenvironment{mylisting}{%
  \lstset{
    moredelim=**[is][\bfseries]{|}{|},% bold everything in between ||
    moredelim=**[is][\itshape]{*}{*}  % italic everything in between **
  }%
  \mdframed[backgroundcolor=codeBackground,shadow=true,shadowsize=2pt,shadowcolor=black!30]%
}{%
  \endmdframed\ignorespaces
}

\begin{document}

\begin{mylisting}
public |class| Test {
  public *static |void|* main(String[] argumente) {
    System.out.println("Hallo Welt!");
  }
}
\end{mylisting}

\end{document}

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Regards

[phitex]

Exactly what I was looking for.

Many many thanks!

φ

[phitex]

Two minor problems:

* The Code should be texttt (typewriter)
* The module "mdframed" can not be loaded. So, a Frame is not visible.

[cgnieder]

If mdframed cannot be loaded than you don't seem to have it installed.

In the documentation to listings (which is very comprehensive, imho) you'll find the option basicstyle. It can be used for the typewriter font. Add something like basicstyle=\ttfamily:

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\lstset{
    moredelim=**[is][\bfseries]{|}{|},% bold everything in between ||
    moredelim=**[is][\itshape]{*}{*}, % italic everything in between **
    basicstyle=\ttfamily
  }%

Regards

[phitex]

Hello cgnieder

I will try this out after my holidays. But the solution I already have from you is realy great!

thakgs again