From: vashti@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Vashti Galpin)
Subject: Re: line numbers in LaTeX
Keywords: line numbers
Organization: CS Dept, University of the Witwatersrand
Date: 23 Aug 92 20:38:50 GMT

This is a summary of reponses I received.  Apologies for taking so long
and thanks for the replies.

>As my supervisor and I are going to be discussing my Master's
>thesis by email, I would like to print a copy for him with 
>line numbers, for example
>    text....
>    text....
>    text....
>    text....
> 5  text....
>    text....
>    text....
>    text....
>    text....
>10  text....
>    text....
>    .
>    .
>Is there some way that I can do this (or something similar) in LaTeX?


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James Fortune <jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu> writes:

I will be attempting just such a macro this month.  Comp.text.tex knows
about it since I posted to find out if anyone else had done it.
The version I will be attempting will put the line numbers on the
outside margin.  There are also some pointers in Tugboat 1990, 1, 2, and 4
that I will be checking out before I begin.  Let me know what you need
and if it is easy to include into what I'm doing then I'll put it in.

JAF
-- 
James Fortune                  - There are many sides to every question
Oakland University             - until you know the truth.  Then there's
jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu  - only one.  --  C. S. Lewis
Disclaimer: Not O.U. opinions  - 

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ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Tobin) writes:

There is a LaTeX style, for inputting a whole file, and placing line
numbers on each fifth line, but not counting blank lines.

% verbatimfiles.sty
%
% Here is a version of Adrian's VERBATIM.STY, for inputting whole files
% verbatim, which is "more LaTeX-like" in that it uses the actual LaTeX 
% macros which set up the `verbatim' environment.
%
% As a matter  of interest, it is much nicer for TeX if you input large
% quantities of "verbatim material" from an "external file" rather than by use 
% of the `verbatim' environment (i.e. putting the material in the main input 
% file. This is because this environment, in common with most (but not all)
% other "verbatim macros", makes the whole of the "verbatim material" a macro
% argument and therefore eats up TeTeX's internal memory.
%
% Chris Rowley
%

% ---              V E R B A T I M F I L E S . S T Y
%
% --- This LaTeX style-file defines two user-callable macros:
% ---     \verbatimfile{<filename>}    for verbatim inclusion of a file
% ---     \verbatimlisting[n]{<filename>} for verbatim inclusion
%                                         with line numbers every nth line
%
% --- The macros are based on those distributed with Sunil Podar's
% --- `EPIC.STY' macro package, attributed to Tim Morgan,
% --- modified to keep internal macros internal by Adrian F. Clark,
% --- alien@uk.ac.essex.ese
% --- ---and further latexification by Chris Rowley,
% --- ca_rowley@uk.ac.open.acs.vax.
% --- optional argument for numbering multiples of [N] by H. Schulzrinne
%     hgschulz@cs.umass.edu
%
% --- Note that the precise layout of line breaks in this file is important!
%

\def\verbatimfile#1{\begingroup
                    \@verbatim \frenchspacing \@vobeyspaces
                    \input#1 \endgroup
}

\newcounter{lineno}\newcounter{Lineno}
\def\verbatimlisting{\@ifnextchar[{\@verbatimlisting}{\@verbatimlisting[5]}}
\def\@verbatimlisting[#1]#2{\setcounter{lineno}{0}\setcounter{Lineno}{0}%
  \begingroup \@verbatim \frenchspacing \@vobeyspaces \parindent=20pt
  \everypar{\stepcounter{lineno}\stepcounter{Lineno}\ifnum\value{Lineno}=#1
    \setcounter{Lineno}{0}\llap{\footnotesize\it\thelineno\ \ }\fi}\input#2
  \endgroup
}
%
% End verbatimfiles.sty
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Vashti Galpin                      vashti@concave.cs.wits.ac.za
Department of Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand
2050 Wits, South Africa.  Tel 27(11)716-3295 Fax 27(11)403-1926
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