indentationverbatim
I have a style where all paragraphs have indentation of about 5cm. Verbatim environment does not have any indentation to the combination of paragraphs and verbatim environments does not look good. Something like this:
This is paragraph ... Next line of the same paragraph.and this is verbatim
Is it possible to define an global indent for verbatim environment?
A general rule is that you can't have \begin{verbatim} or the \verb command in the argument to another command, including an argument to \newcommand.
If you really want to use that syntax, you of course can't have braces in the argument and hope that they will be printed as themselves: either they delimit the argument or they must be printed.
If this limitation satisfies you, then
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\vb}{%
\begingroup
\advance\@totalleftmargin\parindent
\@verbatim
\catcode`{=1 \catcode`}=2 \catcode` =10
\frenchspacing
\@vb}
\def\@vb#1{#1\endtrivlist\endgroup}
\makeatother
will allow you to write
\vb{
word.
}
I don't think this is a great improvement than saying
\begin{verbatim}
word.
\end{verbatim}
If you want a margin indent of the verbatim, look at the option xleftmargin in to the Verbatim environment provided by the package fancyvrb.
The verbatim environment is not sophisticated enough for what you're asking. What you can do instead is
lstlisting environment (from the listings package) in conjunction with the autogobble option (from the lstautogobble package),fullflexible to the columns key (more details in 2.10 in the listings manual),keepspaces to true, which tells the package not to drop spaces to fix column alignment and always converts tabulators to spaces (see subsection 4.13).so as to mimick verbatim output but automatically remove the leading white space. For convenience, you can even define a custom environment with listings' \lstnewenvironment macro. See below.
Side note: if you really insist on using a verbatim environment, you probably shouldn't leave a newline character just before \end{verbatim}; otherwise, that newline char will be printed verbatim and you'll get an (undesirable?) linebreak. For instance, you should write
\begin{verbatim}
Regular paragraph.\end{verbatim}
instead of
\begin{verbatim}
Regular paragraph.
\end{verbatim}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{lstautogobble}
\lstnewenvironment{lstverbatim}[1][]{
\lstset
{
autogobble,
basicstyle=\ttfamily,
columns=fullflexible,
breaklines=true,
keepspaces=true,
}
}{}
\begin{document}
\section{a}
\begin{verbatim}
Regular paragraph\end{verbatim}
\section{b}
\begin{lstverbatim}
Regular paragraph
\end{lstverbatim}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Some extented packages provide this feature. For example,
fancyvrb:Global setting can be done by
\fvset: