Printing source code

[Persoontje]

Hi,

I'm writing an application for a thesis for school. We'd like to include a printout of the source code when we hand in our thesis.

Because there a lot of source code files, printing each on individually would take a lot of time. Does anybody know if there's a program to format and print source code files? (on Linux or Windows) Or another handy way :P

[squidge]

The easiest way would be to just concatenate the entire lot and print that. It'll save on paper too.

cat *.c >output
cat *.h >>output

[Gnurou]

Apply doxygen (http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/) to your sources. You can then produce a very nice PDF with all your source code files correctly indented and formatted. Plus if you want it can also generate API documentation, inheritance graphs, etc.

Here (http://www-scf.usc.edu/~peterchd/doxygen/example/parser_8c-source.html) is a short example of source code printout.

[wysota]

From what I know either vim or emacs (I don't remember which one) provides nice code pretty-printing capabilities. Otherwise if you want your code to look professional, use LaTeX with the listings package.

http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/listings.pdf

BTW. It's a good idea to write the thesis itself in LaTeX too.

[Persoontje]

Yes, I already had written my thesis in LaTeX. And that was really much better than with Word :D

Anyway, I ended up with manually creating a LaTex file (and using lstlistings), so I could remove the comments and the beginning of each file, sort the files on subject (GUI, math etc.)