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The Listings Package

Version 1.3b

Moving from version 0.21

The version 1.0 came with many changes. The table below gives a brief overview.

If the fancyvrb package and listings provides same functionality, they now use the same keys; i.e. many keys have been renamed and some changed their behaviour to fit.
The lstlisting environment has lost its mandatory name argument. A new key controls named and continued listings now. For downward-compatibility the argument is still allowed.
All color-keys require the \color command to be part of the value. For example, backgroundcolor=yellow becomes now backgroundcolor=\color{yellow}. This is how the style-keys always used to select colors.
As always, a compatibility option 0.21 can be used at package loading. This should be fully compatible with one exception: don't use the key advancelabel.

Table: New and old keys and commands face to face

0.21	now
first	firstline
last	lastline
stringspaces	showstringspaces
visiblespaces	showspaces
visibletabs	showtabs
framerulewidth	framerule
framerulesep	rulesep
frametextsep	framesep
framespread	superceded by
	framexleftmargin
	framexrightmargin
	framextopmargin
	framexbottommargin
framerulecolor	rulecolor¹
	columns²

0.21	now
	numbers
labelstep	stepnumber
labelstyle	numberstyle
\thelstlabel	\thelstnumber
labelsep	numbersep
firstlabel	firstnumber
advancelabel
spread
indent	xleftmargin³
	xrightmargin
wholeline	resetmargins
defaultclass	classoffset
stringtest
outputpos

¹ All color-keys require now an explicit \color command in the value.
² Please look into section 2.10 of the documentation.
³ Now frames are also moved!