Here is a quick tip for those of you who use MacPorts and want pretty syntax highlighting in your LaTeX documents. Recently I discovered a great looking package called
minted, which depends on an external python syntax highlighter called
Pygments. I couldn't find any decent tutorials online for a quick and easy setup, so I decided to write one. I hope it will be helpful for someone.
To my readers who didn't come upon this article through google, the minted package is a better alternative to the listings package. Minted allows you to present code in techno-color! This means the programs you have worked hard on, like:
int main() {
printf("hello, world");
return 0;
}
will no longer be restricted to marginalizing black and white:
With minted your code will finally be noticed in the appendix of that report...
Disclaimer: Minted can do many things, but it will not make bad programs work. Though it will make them look like they could work.
