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I create an own command like this


Now I want to use this command in normal text (no problem) and inside of a listing

Nun kann die Funktionsweise überprüft werden:

su -l griduser
globus-url-copy gsiftp://\hostname:2811/home/share/test file:///home/share/test2

In the text, the command is executed without any problems. Inside the listing it is printed as \hostname. How can I execute this inside the listing or pass this as parameter or something like that.

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You need to escape to normal TeX code to process the macro. See the listings manual for how to do this. –  Martin Scharrer Jun 22 '11 at 11:43
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You can "escape" things as follows:

  Text (*\foo*)

Enclose macros you want tex to actually read inside some "escaping" mechanism defined by escapeinside

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awkwardly, this won't work if the command \foo contains macros that you want set verbatim... I guess you'd need to use expansion magic to get around that –  Seamus Jun 22 '11 at 11:52
Thank you, is working great! –  strauberry Jun 22 '11 at 14:34
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