Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!deccrl!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!tcdcs!dce.ie!em
From: em@dce.ie (Eamonn McManus)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Centering verbatim text -- how?
Message-ID: <plugh@dce.ie>
Date: 2 Apr 91 17:20:11 GMT
References: <110059@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Organization: Datacode Communications Ltd, Dublin, Ireland
Lines: 16

jordan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth D Jordan) writes:
>How does one center a section of verbatim text in LaTeX?  Specifically, I
>would like to mix code fragments ... in with regular text...

The problem is that verbatim mode sets every line as a paragraph, and
paragraphs always have width \hsize.  The way to centre would be to
have each line set as a row in a \halign instead; this is the best way
to have the width of the verbatim section be the width of the longest
line.  Hacking verbatim to do this is not impossible.

To my mind, though, indenting the code fragments looks at least as good as
centring and is easier to do.  My cprog style (plug) has a parameter
\cprogindent for this purpose.

,
Eamonn