Can anyone recommend me a good template to include C source code with line numbering in Latex? For example, taking the classical Hello world program, I would like to make it look as follows:
(1) /* Hello World program */
(2)
(3) #include<stdio.h>
(4)
(5) main()
(6) {
(7) printf("Hello World");
(8) }
Typicall, I always used the verbatim environment, but I am wondering if there is a better and nicer way to do that.
Thanks so much Richard
As others have said, the listings package will probably do what you want using something like the following:
\lstset{
language=C, % choose the language of the code
numbers=left, % where to put the line-numbers
stepnumber=1, % the step between two line-numbers.
numbersep=5pt, % how far the line-numbers are from the code
backgroundcolor=\color{white}, % choose the background color. You must add \usepackage{color}
showspaces=false, % show spaces adding particular underscores
showstringspaces=false, % underline spaces within strings
showtabs=false, % show tabs within strings adding particular underscores
tabsize=2, % sets default tabsize to 2 spaces
captionpos=b, % sets the caption-position to bottom
breaklines=true, % sets automatic line breaking
breakatwhitespace=true, % sets if automatic breaks should only happen at whitespace
title=\lstname, % show the filename of files included with \lstinputlisting;
}
\lstinputlisting{HelloWorld.c}
A more powerful alternative would be to use the minted package, although this will do much more than what you're currently asking, as it uses/requires pygments to be installed on your system so that it can fully tokenize the code you give it.
You might want to have a look at the listings package. It is very flexible and easy to use.
Take a look at Code listings in LaTeX. You'll find a couple of alternatives there. Some options are:
