I am writing a document in LaTeX and I need to add some Markdown code fragments with highlighted syntax. Right now I'm using listings library for all my code fragments but listings doesn't support markdown as language. I'm not able to find any custom Markdown language extension or configuration to use. Is there anyone who was facing the same problem? Is there any custom Markdown syntax highlighting setup for listings to use?
[Tex/LaTex] Markdown code fragment inside latex document
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Not quite a direct answer to your question, but I recommend the rather wonderful package minted. It uses pygments to highlight a wide variety of languages. Keep in mind that you'll need to pass -shell-escape to latex so that it can call out to pygments. Documentation here (pdf).
Frankly, I switched to minted because setting up anything complex in listings quickly got out of hand for my tastes.
The listings package doesn't define any language corresponding to SPSS, but defining one is easy enough.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{inputencoding=utf8/latin1}
\lstdefinelanguage{SPSS}
{
sensitive = true,
morekeywords = {ALL, AND, BY, EQ, GE, GT, LE, LT, NE, NOT, OR, TO, WITH},
morecomment = [s]*.,
morecomment = [s]{/*}{*/},
morestring = [s]'',
morestring = [s]"",
}
\lstdefinestyle{mySPSSstyle}
{
language = SPSS,
upquote = true,
basicstyle = \sffamily\scriptsize,
keywordstyle = \color[RGB]{165,42,42}\bfseries,
commentstyle = \color{blue},
stringstyle = \color[RGB]{255,0,255},
breaklines = true,
columns = fullflexible,
frame = single,
rulecolor = \color{black},
numbers = left,
numberstyle = \color{gray},
}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{sample.sps}
USE ALL.
*Filter für Gültige.
COMPUTE gueltig=0.
EXECUTE.
IF ((Ernsthaftigkeit1nurmalgucken5ernsthaftdabei > 2) AND (Alter < 75) AND (Aufmerksamkeit1abgelenkt5konzentriert > 2) AND (Musik1keine2Hobby3Profi > 0)) gueltig=1.
EXECUTE.
FILTER BY gueltig.
*Filter für deutsch erkannt (Audio und Verständnis korrekt).
USE ALL.
RECODE erkannteSprache ('d'=1) ('de'=1) ('Detsch'=1) ('deusch'=1) ('deustch'=1) ('Deutch'=1) ('deutsc'=1) ('deutscg'=1) ('deutsch'=1) ('Deutsch'=1) ('DEUTSCH'=1) ('Deutts'=1) ('german'=1) ('German'=1) ('German.'=1) ('Gernab'=1) (ELSE=0)
INTO deutscherkannt.
EXECUTE.
FILTER BY deutscherkannt.
*Filter für deutsche Sprache.
USE ALL.
RECODE ausgewählteSprache ("de"=1) (ELSE=0) INTO deutsch.
EXECUTE.
*Filter für auszuwählende Fälle.
USE ALL.
COMPUTE auswahl=0.
EXECUTE.
IF ((gueltig=1) AND (deutscherkannt=1)) auswahl=1.
EXECUTE.
FILTER BY auswahl.
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{document}
\lstinputlisting[style=mySPSSstyle]{sample.sps}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Take a look on the manual on CTAN. In particular the section you are looking for is 5.16 Language definitions. The basic usage is something like
In particular, look for the
stringandmorestringtag. The first step should be to cast correctly italic, bold and nested italic-bold strings. Also cast correctly the titles should be easy. A slighty more difficult would be to correctly cast lists and tables. You can also look at the original markdown syntax by John Gruber and the syntax of github markdown as reference. If you want to do a very good job I suggest you to impement them both as dialects of markdown language. If you are successful yo can also send the result to the author in order to be included in the next version.If you have troubles post your work so far and we'll try to help you.
Happy coding!!