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I'm trying to read through the Beamer manual, but I don't even really know what I'm looking for, so please help.

How do I change globally (but even if it is a per-frame, it will be still good) size of the verbatim blocks?

egreg
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wvxvw
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Add the following to the preamble of your script:

\makeatletter
\def\verbatim{\tiny\@verbatim \frenchspacing\@vobeyspaces \@xverbatim}
\makeatother

This should globally change any verbatim environment in your document. Just change 

\tiny

to whatever font size you are looking for.

joemienko
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  • Thanks a lot! I have a follow-up question, somewhat related. I tried to add :BEAMER_envargs: [size=small] property to the particular frame (it contained only verbatim block). Wouldn't there be any way to define this on a per-frame level? – wvxvw Sep 14 '13 at 18:56
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    you should be able to define a new command. Something like \newcommand\totiny{\tiny\selectfont}. You can then add the \totiny command to any frame that you are creating. A frame in which the \totiny command is used will have tiny font. A frame in which the command is not used will use the default settings. –  Sep 14 '13 at 19:23
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The best strategy for this is to load the fancyvrb package; with

\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\fvset{fontsize=\footnotesize}
\RecustomVerbatimEnvironment{verbatim}{Verbatim}{}

your verbatim environments will all be printed using \footnotesize. If you want to override the setting for a particular environment, you can say

\begin{verbatim}[fontsize=\huge]

(well, maybe not \huge, that's only to give the idea); or issue

\fvset{fontsize=\normalsize}

inside a frame for the setting to hold only in that frame.

Of course you know that frames containing verbatim material should be announced by \begin{frame}[fragile].

egreg
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  • Can I ask you please to move it back to SO? This question was specific to org-mode of Emacs. It was by chance that it was possible to solve it through using some LaTeX code directly, but my original intention / expectation was that it would be possible to solve it by the means of org-mode (eg. through properties). Also, as a side effect of moving this question you made it impossible for the authors of other answers to reply to the comment, if there will be any. – wvxvw Sep 15 '13 at 19:10
  • @wvxvw What has the Beamer manual to do with Emacs' org-mode? What has org-mode to do with the typesetting of LaTeX material? – egreg Sep 15 '13 at 19:18
  • org-mode has settings to export to TeX, and then to export TeX to PDF. Beamer manual was a poor choice of words, I was referring to http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/beamer/ox-beamer.html (Worg manual) on Beamer export. – wvxvw Sep 15 '13 at 19:21
  • @wvxvw Changing the font size must be done on the LaTeX side nonetheless. – egreg Sep 15 '13 at 19:22
  • The page I'm referring to, for example, shows how to change font weight, maybe there's also an option to change the size? I don't know, but it seems fairly reasonable to believe there might be one. I mean, what if there is already a function for it in org-mode, but I simply don't know it's there? It may as well just do the same what has been suggested here. – wvxvw Sep 15 '13 at 19:34
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Alternatively you could try to use the 'verbatim' package. I do this with:

\usepackage{verbatim}
\makeatletter
\def\verbatim@font{\scriptsize\ttfamily}
\makeatother

which changes the size of all verbatims to scriptsize.

  • Thanks for the info! Since I'm relatively new to LaTeX, would you mind telling how do you discover what packages are there and what features they provide? – wvxvw Sep 15 '13 at 13:48
  • This will change the font also in all inline \verb commands. Loading verbatim is not necessary, as \verbatim@font is a feature of the LaTeX kernel. – egreg Sep 15 '13 at 15:12