Does anyone know how to change the font for code snippets in the listings package? I'd like to have a constant width font, rather the fancy variable-width looking font that it has by default.
[Tex/LaTex] How to change code example font in listings
fontslistings
Related Solutions
As per Mico's answer to using bold italic text inside listings, there is no boldfaced mono spaced font in the Computer Modern font family, so you need to use a font that has a bold mono spaced font.
Borrowing from this earlier question on XML syntax highlighting, here is an example:
Known Issues:
I am not sure why the very first non-comment
<was not being highlighted.Matthias's suggested that this behavior can be overcome by using an
escapecharand replacing the first<with!\color{red}{<}!where!is theescapechar. This has been incorporated into the solution below.
Code:
\documentclass[border=2pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{pxfonts}
\lstset{
basicstyle=\ttfamily,
columns=fullflexible,
showstringspaces=false,
commentstyle=\color{gray}\upshape,
breaklines=true,
}
\lstdefinelanguage{XML}{
morestring=[b][\color{brown}]",
morestring=[s][\color{red}\bfseries]{>}{<},
morecomment=[s]{<?}{?>},
stringstyle=\color{black},
identifierstyle=\color{blue},
keywordstyle=\color{cyan},
escapechar=!,
morekeywords={name,use,xmlns,version,type}% list your attributes here,
}
\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}[language=XML]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
!\color{red}\bfseries<!xs:schema attributeFormDefault="unqualified" elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:element name="points">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="point">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="x" type="xs:unsignedShort" use="required" />
<xs:attribute name="y" type="xs:unsignedShort" use="required" />
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}
Alternate Solution:
Using the solution form ttfamily with bfseries or how to enable bold in fixed width font you can use the courier font with
\renewcommand{\ttdefault}{pcr}
but I personally find these results no so satisfying:
Code:
Same as above but delete \usepackage{pxfonts} and add:
\renewcommand{\ttdefault}{pcr}
Have you tried using \setmonofont[<options>]{<font name>} with fontspec?
Best Answer
As shown at page 28 of the manual, adding the option
to the
\lstset{}command would make what you ask.Keep in mind to always read the packages documentation on your machine before posting.