[texhax] Curly brackets in alltt environment

[Edsko de Vries]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 07:28:30PM +0100, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote:
> I am writing a text where I want to include some snippets of source 
> code (actually R).  This means that I have to be able to include 
> brackets of the {} type.
> 
> In the verbatim environment they are simply not printed.  When using 
> the alltt package they can be printed by using \{ and \}, but then 
> they look a little too large (the size of the tt font is set by 
> \small) compared to the rest of the text.  A third alternative I have 
> tried is to use the listings package, but that gives me a different 
> font from the other snippets.

I would strongly recommend the listings package for all listings. You
can change the font sing

\lstset{basicstyle=...}

where your preferred font selection goes on the dots.

Edsko