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write in a monospace font (i.e. courier) in latex

March 30th, 2006 by Lawrence David

you might want to use monospaced strings in latex to reproduce things like filenames. (where monospace refers to fonts like courier, where every character takes up the same amount of line space.)

here’s an example of how to do it:

The matrix $C_{i,j}$ is calculated in the uploaded file
\texttt{loadComplex.m}.

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6 Responses to “write in a monospace font (i.e. courier) in latex”

1. on 10 Jun 2010 at 3:52 pm   Amit

   great!! thanks !

2. on 13 Nov 2010 at 3:05 pm   Hannah

   Thank you!

3. on 20 Feb 2011 at 5:54 pm   Christopher Martin

   Alternately:

   The matrix $C_{i,j}$ is calculated in the uploaded file
   {\tt loadComplex.m}.

4. on 28 Mar 2011 at 5:44 pm   Tom

   Thanks, just what I was looking for

5. on 29 Dec 2011 at 12:28 pm   Luke

   Perfect. Thank you!

6. on 24 May 2014 at 3:11 am   mmoorpg

   I do not have the slightest idea