listingspunctuation
So I am writing a book on AWK and when using listings code highlighting module, I get the fancy quotes “ ” and ‘ ’ instead of the regular ASCII ones " " and ' '. I hate these fancy quotes because when copying code examples from a PDF, they never work in the terminal.
Does anyone know how to make all code examples use only ASCII quotes?
I found out that you can set \lstset{upquote=true} and that fixes the single quotes ' ' but the double ones are still broken.
Any ideas?
I have finally solved my problem (as I mentioned it in a comment) using the paracol environment.
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{paracol}
\begin{document}
\begin{paracol}{2}
Left
\switchcolumn
Right
\end{paracol}
\end{document}
Still, the background coloring needed some patching up. I've replaced the listing background using the mdframed package.
So the final MWE has come to this:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{paracol}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage[framemethod=TikZ]{mdframed}
\lstnewenvironment{code}{
\mdframed[outerlinecolor=black, backgroundcolor=gray]{}
}{
\endmdframed
}
\begin{document}
\begin{paracol}{2}
\begin{code}
Left
\end{code}
\switchcolumn
\begin{code}
Right
\end{code}
\end{paracol}
\end{document}
However, this also generates some warnings (multiply defined labels in mdframed), I've made a patch for this, and asked here whether there is a better solution.
You can get the curly left quotes with literate, but imho you have to disable the string delimiter to avoid to get the spaces shown.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{
language=Java,
tabsize=2,
numbers=left,
basicstyle=\footnotesize,
literate={``}{\textquotedblleft}1,
deletestring=[b]",
,
}
\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}
void my_method() {
int test = 0;
some_method(``string");
boolean b = false;
some_method(``string");
}
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Use a sensible fontencoding. And make a complete example next time so that nobody has to guess what you are doing wrong.
Btw: Don't rely to much on copying code from a pdf. Spaces can disappear.