Long lines in LaTeX

Question

I have some code I write inside the verbatim environment. Sometimes, the lines are too long and the generated pdf looks ugly - the text row passes over the right margin. What can I do to automatically break these long lines? Is there anything better than the verbatim env?

Thanks, Lucian

Answer 1

Of course, you have the wonderful "listings" package for that. It supports (if you want) even pretty printing of a lot of source code languages, as well as a "smart breaking" of long lines depending on the language being displayed.

Answer 2

Can you just use a fixed-width font, e.g. \texttt{}? If you require something more sophisticated, try the moreverb, listings, or algorithmicx packages.