Bug#475746: listings: 'Assembler' and 'Basic' languages don't work

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@elzevir.fr>]

Hi,

Eugene V. Lyubimkin a écrit :
> Frank Küster wrote:
>> You have to do it right, it seems you can't use languages with dialects
>> without specifiying one, even if there is only one:
>>

I'm afraid this is a bit more complicated: you can use a language with
dialects without specifying one only if there is a default dialect for this
language (see table 1, p 12 of the doc). For example, there is a default
dialect for TeX, namely plain, so you can say :

\begin{lstlistings}[language=TeX]

But, somehow surprisingly, there is no predefined default dialect for Basic,
though there is only one dialect. Anyway, you can define a default dialect for
this language with

\lstset{defaultdialect=[Visual]Basic}

in your preamble for example.

> I think this can be explained at section that tells about 'listings'
> package, it would be logical.
> 
Hum, in LaTeX, each package has a separate documentation. For listings, the
documentation is in

/usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-recommended-doc/latex/listings/listings.pdf

and can easily be found by typing 'texdoc listings' in a terminal.

By the way, I would expect section 2.4 of the documentation to mention the
fact that the "optional" argument for the dialect is actually mandatory for
languages without predefined default dialect...

Best,
Manuel.