I would like to be able to make a single word in a text look like a coded word. Is there any command such as \code{...} which allows me to do so?
(basically, I want to produce something like above for the "\code{…}" part)
[Tex/LaTex] How to make a single word look as some code
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(Improved answer thanks to Bruno's help on his code)
I've implemented some of the things I mentioned in my earlier answer, but I felt this was different enough to get a separate answer.
Once again, tex.sx provided me with a couple of things I needed for this. Bruno Le Floch wrote some code that rotates arguments at a random angle and helped shortening it for this answer. Martin Scharrer showed how to execute a command for every word. Thanks to both of them.
Starting at the top of the code, here's what I did to change the design:
- default font size 17 via
extarticledocument class - double line spacing
- define a command
\eldersignthat inserts an elder sign, sized in relation to the current font size. You need to find an elder sign that you can use, I put in the placeholdereldersignimagefile. I recommend using a PNG image or some other format providing background transparency. - change the default font to Teen Spirit – you can use any font you like, there certainly are better ones on the Internet. Use them with XeLaTeX and
fontspec, as I described in my other answer. (I haven't tested Bruno's and Martin's code with XeLaTeX though.) With a different font, you might want to choose a different font size and different rotation angles. - remove page number
- free parchment background image that I found at http://www.alfredom.com/art/free-6.htm, here named
backgroundimagefile - centered everything
- changed the text color to
MidnightBlue(svgnamescolor scheme)
Whenever you want to typeset text crazily, you have to pass it as an argument to \cthulhu. For an elder sign, just use \eldersign. You might want to adapt your image to suit the text color.
DISCLAIMER
This is just hacked together and you will very likely run into problems once you start using it more extensively. Take it as inspiration. It was fun for me putting it together. Feel free to make suggestions on how to improve this.
\documentclass[17pt]{extarticle}% This is a document class providing more font size options
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{emerald}% font package
\usepackage[doublespacing]{setspace}% line spacing
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{wallpaper}
% thanks to Bruno Le Floch: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9331/4012
% and in his comments to https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/29458/4012
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage[first=-6,last=6]{lcg}% you can play around with these values
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\globalrand}{\rand\global\cr@nd\cr@nd}
\makeatother
\newcommand{\randomrotation}[1]{\globalrand\turnbox{\value{rand}}{#1}\phantom{#1}}
% thanks to Martin Scharrer: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/11598/4012
\makeatletter
\def\cthulhu#1{%
\@cthulhu#1 \@empty
}
\def\@cthulhu#1 #2{%
\randomrotation{#1}\space
\ifx #2\@empty\else
\expandafter\@cthulhu
\fi
#2%
}
\makeatother
% ----------
\newcommand{\eldersign}{\raisebox{-.5\height}{\includegraphics[height=3ex]{eldersignimagefile}}}
\renewcommand*{\rmdefault}{fts}
\begin{document}\pagestyle{empty}\CenterWallPaper{}{backgroundimagefile}
\centering% that madman wouldn't justify his writings
\color{MidnightBlue}% my pick for "looks like ink"
\cthulhu{Hello, I am crazy. I am a Cthulhu worshipping gibbering madman, unhinged by
the horrors I have witnessed. I am a Cthulhu worshipping gibbering madman, unhinged by
the horrors I have witnessed. I am a Cthulhu worshipping gibbering madman, unhinged by
the horrors I have witnessed. I am a Cthulhu worshipping gibbering madman, unhinged by
the horrors I have witnessed. I am a Cthulhu worshipping gibbering madman, unhinged by
the horrors I have witnessed.} \eldersign
\end{document}
On the other points you mentioned: I don't think Dropcaps would look good here; they convey something of a plannedness which wouldn't be in the style of my madman. As for font size changes and random word spacing, I don't know how to do that automarandomly.
I was able to replicate it pretty closely using listings.
Ultimately, the part that made it tricky is that you have redundant commands in your \lstset (and presumably also where you defined keywords for Javascript): for example, the colors you provided for different keyword styles were overridden by others that were already defined.
I started with a listings language definition for Javascript, which I got from this TeX.sx post; however, we'll be modifying the colors, so I removed the definitions we won't use.
\lstdefinelanguage{JavaScript}{
keywords={typeof, new, true, false, catch, function, return, null, catch, switch, var, if, in, while, do, else, case, break},
ndkeywords={class, export, boolean, throw, implements, import, this},
sensitive=false,
comment=[l]{//},
morecomment=[s]{/*}{*/},
morestring=[b]',
morestring=[b]"
}
Then, we define the style, which comes from setting the colors (and italics for comments) in keywordstyle, commentstyle, etc., along with a few spacing adjustments. I always alphabetize my \lstset call so that I can quickly figure out whether I've already added a command rather than duplicating it.
\lstset{
aboveskip={1.3\baselineskip},
basicstyle=\scriptsize\ttfamily\linespread{4},
breaklines=false,
columns=flexible,
commentstyle=\color[rgb]{0.127,0.427,0.514}\ttfamily\itshape,
escapechar=@,
extendedchars=true,
frame=single,
identifierstyle=\color{black},
inputencoding=latin1,
keywordstyle=\color[HTML]{228B22}\bfseries,
language=JavaScript,
ndkeywordstyle=\color[HTML]{228B22}\bfseries,
numbers=left,
numberstyle=\tiny,
prebreak = \raisebox{0ex}[0ex][0ex]{\ensuremath{\hookleftarrow}},
showstringspaces=false,
stringstyle=\color[rgb]{0.639,0.082,0.082}\ttfamily,
upquote=true
}
Finally, minted highlights the numbers in gray. This TeX.sx answer shows us how to do it in listings:
\definecolor{darkgray}{rgb}{.4,.4,.4}
\lstset{literate=%
*{0}{{{\color{darkgray}0}}}1
{1}{{{\color{darkgray}1}}}1
{2}{{{\color{darkgray}2}}}1
% ... and so on
{9}{{{\color{darkgray}9}}}1
}
Here's my whole working example.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{listings}
\definecolor{darkgray}{rgb}{.4,.4,.4}
\lstdefinelanguage{JavaScript}{
keywords={typeof, new, true, false, catch, function, return, null, catch, switch, var, if, in, while, do, else, case, break},
ndkeywords={class, export, boolean, throw, implements, import, this},
sensitive=false,
comment=[l]{//},
morecomment=[s]{/*}{*/},
morestring=[b]',
morestring=[b]"
}
\lstset{
aboveskip={1.3\baselineskip},
basicstyle=\scriptsize\ttfamily\linespread{4},
breaklines=false,
columns=flexible,
commentstyle=\color[rgb]{0.127,0.427,0.514}\ttfamily\itshape,
escapechar=@,
extendedchars=true,
frame=single,
identifierstyle=\color{black},
inputencoding=latin1,
keywordstyle=\color[HTML]{228B22}\bfseries,
language=JavaScript,
ndkeywordstyle=\color[HTML]{228B22}\bfseries,
numbers=left,
numberstyle=\tiny,
prebreak = \raisebox{0ex}[0ex][0ex]{\ensuremath{\hookleftarrow}},
stringstyle=\color[rgb]{0.639,0.082,0.082}\ttfamily,
upquote=true,
showstringspaces=false,
}
\lstset{literate=%
*{0}{{{\color{darkgray}0}}}1
{1}{{{\color{darkgray}1}}}1
{2}{{{\color{darkgray}2}}}1
{3}{{{\color{darkgray}3}}}1
{4}{{{\color{darkgray}4}}}1
{5}{{{\color{darkgray}5}}}1
{6}{{{\color{darkgray}6}}}1
{7}{{{\color{darkgray}7}}}1
{8}{{{\color{darkgray}8}}}1
{9}{{{\color{darkgray}9}}}1
}
\begin{document}
\lstinputlisting{filename.js}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Normally a monospaced font is used for this. This is accomplished with
\texttt{...}. If you want to use code, you can use\def\code#1{\texttt{#1}}. From that point on you can write\code{...}to get monospaced output.