Re: mcode.sty for LaTeX

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Richard Crozier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 30/05/2013 14:35, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Richard Crozier <address@hidden>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 29/05/2013 18:53, c. wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 29 May 2013, at 17:46, address@hidden wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Message: 2
>>>>>> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 16:17:43 +0100
>>>>>> From: Richard Crozier <address@hidden>
>>>>>> To: address@hidden
>>>>>> Subject: Re: mcode.sty for LaTeX
>>>>>> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
>>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 29/05/2013 15:12, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does this look useful for us?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.howtotex.com/tips-tricks/how-to-include-matlab-code-in-latex-documents/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Modifying to suit Octave's syntax looks straight forward.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I use this a lot, very handy, but since the ultimate source is the ML
>>>>>> file exchange, you should maybe ask the author to email a copy to the
>>>>>> list or upload to CTAN if Octave is going to use it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Richard
>>>>>
>>>>> What does it do differently than
>>>>>
>>>>> \usepackage{listings}
>>>>>
>>>>> \begin{lstlisting}[language=Octave]
>>>>> a = 1;    # Octave comment
>>>>> b = 2;
>>>>> c = a^2 + b^2;
>>>>> for i = 1:10
>>>>>    disp (i)
>>>>> endfor
>>>>> \end{lstlisting}
>>>>>
>>>>> it seems it only defines a different set of default styles for matlab
>>>>> language than is defined in listings.sty
>>>>> but that package already contains a set of defaults for Octave that I
>>>>> like
>>>>> and use a lot, and it also takes care
>>>>> of Octave-only keywords like "endif", "endfor", "endfunction" etc….
>>>>>
>>>>> c.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> It turns out that if you combine mcode.sty with language=Octave, they
>>>> seem
>>>> to work together at first glance, i.e. endfor, endfunction etc. are
>>>> highlighted. I've attached an example.
>>>>
>>>> The main difference is that the non mcode.sty version is in black and
>>>> white,
>>>> I prefer the highlighted version, but it would depend what I was using it
>>>> for.
>>>>
>>>> Richard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> With he listing configurations I sent listings look much better than
>>> that results. It is just a matter of committing a new style definition
>>> to the maintainer of the package.
>>
>>
>> Your style is also nice, but I couldn't get it to produce fixed width
>> output, like the mcode.sty seems to do, although I'm not certain.
>>
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
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>>
>
> Will try that, maybe is better to update ,code and not listing?
*mcode