Center Latex lstlisting

Question

This is driving me crazy.

I want to center a lstlisting in LaTeX.

After 3 hours attempting here's some code:

\lstset{ %     caption=Descriptive Caption Text,     label=lst:descr_capti_text,     basicstyle=\ttfamily\footnotesize\bfseries,     frame=tb,     linewidth=0.6\textwidth  } \centering\begin{tabular}{c} \begin{lstlisting} printf("this should be centered!"); \end{lstlisting} \end{tabular} 

This is putting the lstlisting on the center but not its caption, that goes to the right. If I take out the tabular, then caption gets centered but the code goes to the left! :(

Thank you.

Answer 1

Instead of using linewidth you should consider to use xleftmargin and xrightmargin (cf. texdoc listings, Chapter 4.10). The following code works without any center or minipage environment:

\lstset{   caption=Descriptive Caption Text,    basicstyle=\footnotesize, frame=tb,   xleftmargin=.2\textwidth, xrightmargin=.2\textwidth } \begin{lstlisting}     printf("this should be centered!"); \end{lstlisting}