LaTeX package for syntax highlighting of code in various languages

syntax package latex highlight
Vincent Ramdhanie picture Vincent Ramdhanie · Nov 19, 2008 · Viewed 139.2k times · Source

I am looking for a LaTeX package that does syntax highlighting on code. For example, right now I use the verbatim block to write code:

\begin{verbatim}
    <html>
       <head>
           <title>Hello</title>
       </head>
       <body>Hello</body>
    </html>
\end{verbatim}

And this works fine to display the code on my document. But, suppose I wanted to highlight the HTML markup the way an IDE would in the output document? Is there a package that could help?

I would like to do the same for various languages such as Java, C#, HTML, CSS and so on.

Answer

ChrisN picture ChrisN · Nov 19, 2008

You can use the listings package. It supports many different languages and there are lots of options for customising the output.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}

\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}[language=html]
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Hello</title>
    </head>
    <body>Hello</body>
</html>
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}

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