I'm currently writing a project report, and to explain the slightly crazy un-intuitive code that I've used I need to put lots and lots of short excerpts of example code in.
How I can get code into LaTeX that:
EDITED (Figured I'd add the settings so people don't have to try and figure them out themselves (taken from wikibooks (link further down) and edited for niceness))
Nice settings:
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{ %
language=C++, % choose the language of the code
basicstyle=\footnotesize, % the size of the fonts that are used for the code
numbers=left, % where to put the line-numbers
numberstyle=\footnotesize, % the size of the fonts that are used for the line-numbers
stepnumber=1, % the step between two line-numbers. If it is 1 each line will be numbered
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
frame=single, % adds a frame around the code
tabsize=2, % sets default tabsize to 2 spaces
captionpos=b, % sets the caption-position to bottom
breaklines=true, % sets automatic line breaking
breakatwhitespace=false, % sets if automatic breaks should only happen at whitespace
escapeinside={\%*}{*)} % if you want to add a comment within your code
}
\begin{lstlisting}
!!code!!
\end{lstlisting}
An example of these settings:
The listings package is quite nice and very flexible (e.g. different sizes for comments and code).