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I’m about to hand in my Bachelor’s Thesis, and needed to include some source code in the report. Previously, I’ve used the following macro in the preamble:

\usepackage{moreverb}

\def\sourcetabsize{4}
\newenvironment{sourcestyle}{\begin{scriptsize}}{\end{scriptsize}}
\def\sourceinput#1{\par\begin{sourcestyle}\verbatimtabinput[\sourcetabsize]{#1}\end{sourcestyle}\par}

And then included the source files using:


\begin{figure}[h]
\sourceinput{helloworld.c}
\caption{hello world c code}
\end{figure}


This has some drawbacks, namely:

• The appearence is sort of restriced, unless you want to manually rewrite the macro (which quickly grows out of hand)
• Source code is limited to one page (unless you include them without the figure)
• This seems a bit like a hack

After some googling, I found out that there is actually a package called listings, which does this in a more proper way

This should go in the preamble:


\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{tabsize=2,breaklines=true,breakatwhitespace=true,basicstyle=\scriptsize\tt,morecomment=[l]{//},
postbreak=\mbox{{\tiny$\hookrightarrow$}}}


More options for lstset are available in the pdf, or at this blog.

To include a source code file, type this anywhere you want it included:


\subsection*{hello world c code}
\lstinputlisting{helloworld.c}


So, don’t put stuff in figures, unless you really need to! Now I will just have to rewrite my references to my late figures…