Source Code Highlighting with Minted in LaTeX

Author:

writeLaTeX

Last Updated:

10 years ago

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Creative Commons CC BY 4.0

Abstract:

The minted package provides automatic syntax highlighting for source code listings. It uses the excellent pygments highlighter, which provides very high quality highlighting for a wide range of languages.

This example also shows how you can use minted to typeset LaTeX math embedded in your source code.

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Source Code Highlighting with Minted in LaTeX

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%
% These examples are based on the package documentation:
% http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minted
%
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\usepackage{minted}

\begin{document}

\title{Source Code Highlighting with Minted in LaTeX}
\author{writeLaTeX}
\maketitle

\section{Hello World!}
\begin{minted}{c}
int main() {
  printf("hello, world");
  return 0;
}
\end{minted}

\section{Math in Source Code Comments}
\begin{minted}[mathescape,gobble=2]{csharp}
  /*
  Defined as $\pi=\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{P_n}{d}$ where $P$ is the perimeter
  of an $n$-sided regular polygon circumscribing a
  circle of diameter $d$.
  */
  const double pi = 3.1415926535
\end{minted}

\end{document}

Source Code Highlighting with Minted in LaTeX

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