How to place two code snippets next to each other with minted?

Question

The minted package for code highlighting comes with a float environment called listing. Now I would like to place two of this code listings next to each other, but I have no idea how to do this. I tried using the multicol package, but code of the two listings overlapped.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

EDIT: Here is some little macro I created for convenience and an example on its usage.

\newcommand{\insertminted}[2]{\inputminted[linenos=true,
                                       frame=lines,
                                       framesep=2mm,
                                       xleftmargin=2cm,
                                       xrightmargin=2cm]{#1}{#2}}


\begin{listing}[H]
  \insertminted{xml}{code_examples/user.xml}
  \insertminted{js}{code_examples/user.js}
  \caption{SomeCaption}
  \label{lst:representation_examples}
\end{listing}

This way the code of user.xml is above the code of user.js. What I would like to have is the code next to each other in two cols, so that it can be compared. I also would like to have a seperate caption for each of them. The listing as a whole should appear in the output of \listoflistings.

Answer 1

The minted package provides the listing environment, which is a float. My first attempt was to put minipages inside of the listing environment together with their own captions. This did not work, sadly.

Instead, I have used the caption package (with compatibility=false as detailed in the minted documentation) and then put two minted environments inside a figure environment (so that it floats), and used the captionof command to get the appropriate captions.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[compatibility=false]{caption}
\usepackage{minted}


\begin{document}
\listoflistings

\vspace{2cm}

\begin{figure}[!h]
 \begin{minipage}{0.5\textwidth}
  \centering
  \begin{minted}{python}
  some code
  \end{minted}
  \captionof{listing}{Sub caption}
 \end{minipage}
 \begin{minipage}{0.5\textwidth}
  \centering
  \begin{minted}{python}
  some other code
  \end{minted}
  \captionof{listing}{Another sub caption}
 \end{minipage}
 \captionof{listing}{SomeCaption}
  \label{lst:representation_examples}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

For anyone new to the minted package you'll need python-pygments

sudo apt-get install python-pygments

and you need to run pdflatex with

 pdflatex -shell-escape myfile.tex

both of which are detailed in the documentation.

Answer 2

Using a minipage is an easy way to get two things next to each other. Here is an example using lstlisting from the listings package. You should be able to adapt this for the minted package.

\documentclass[border=2pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{listings}

\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.45\linewidth}
\begin{lstlisting}[caption={Some XML Caption}]
  .. xml code ...
  .. xml code ...
  .. xml code ...
  .. xml code ...
  .. xml code ...
  .. xml code ...
\end{lstlisting}
\end{minipage}
%
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.45\linewidth}
\begin{lstlisting}[caption={Some Javascript Caption}]
  ... javascript code ...
  ... javascript code ...
  ... javascript code ...
\end{lstlisting}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}