Make code in LaTeX look nice

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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    looks nice doesn t go off the side of the page if the line s too long  list lstlisting or verbatim  is preferably inline with the rest of the text   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

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For simple document  I sometimes use verbatim  but listing is nice for big chunk of code

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The listings package is quite nice and very flexible  e g  different sizes for comments and code

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It turns out that lstlisting is able to format code nicely  but requires a lot of tweaking   Wikibooks has a good example for the parameters you can tweak

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