How to use \scalebox around my environment?

Question

I tried putting scalebox{.2} while defining my new environment, but it is not being applied:

\documentclass[10pt,a5paper,twoside]{memoir}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage[brazil]{babel}
\usepackage[showframe,pass]{geometry}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\makeatletter

\newenvironment{myenvironment}[0]
{scalebox{.2}\{myenvironment start\par\verbatim}
{\endverbatim\endgraf myenvironment end\}}

\makeatother

\begin{document}

\begin{myenvironment}
    test
\end{myenvironment}

\end{document}

Related to Change font size of the verbatim environment – user Aug 21 '17 at 15:46 — user, Aug 21 '17 at 15:46

Steven B. Segletes · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-21T15:09:56.293

4

Two ways to do this with the verbatimbox package. Note that approach two requires a scalable font, which is why I added the lmodern package.

\documentclass[10pt,a5paper,twoside]{memoir}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage[brazil]{babel}
\usepackage[showframe,pass]{geometry}

\usepackage{graphicx,verbatimbox}

\begin{document}

\begin{verbbox}
test
of my
\%\@# verbatim stuff
\end{verbbox}
\noindent\scalebox{.2}{\theverbbox} 

versus normal size

\begin{verbnobox}[\fontsize{2pt}{2.5pt}\selectfont]
test
of my
\%\@# verbatim stuff
\end{verbnobox}

Back to normal
\end{document}

edited Aug 21 '17 at 15:09

answered Aug 21 '17 at 14:23

Steven B. Segletes

237,551

Thanks, but when I use the font size directive I got these warnings depending on the font size: LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `T1/cmtt/m/n' in size <2> not available(Font) size <5> substituted on input line 94. However while using the scalebox it does not show these things. – user Aug 21 '17 at 14:34
1

@user Note that I added \usepackage{lmodern} to the preamble. – Steven B. Segletes Aug 21 '17 at 14:58
Thanks! I added it to my preamble and fixed the warnings. – user Aug 21 '17 at 15:08
Is there any way to keep blank lines in \verbbox or \verbnobox ? – user1389406 Sep 07 '21 at 03:07
@user1389406 Yes. Add \mbox{} to \begin{verbnobox}[\fontsize{2pt}{2.5pt}\selectfont\mbox{}] in the invocation, so that even blank lines get prepended with an empty mbox. – Steven B. Segletes Sep 07 '21 at 09:06
1

Thank you Steven. It works like a charm. – user1389406 Sep 07 '21 at 11:25
@user1389406 The \mbox takes one out of vertical mode. Therefore, one could, likewise, substitute \leavevmode in lieu of \mbox{}. – Steven B. Segletes Sep 16 '21 at 21:35

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 21 '17 at 14:31

4

Or use the environ package.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{environ}

\NewEnviron{test}{%
\scalebox{5}{\BODY}}

\begin{document}
    This is nuts
\begin{test}
    This is nuts
\end{test}

\end{document}

answered Aug 21 '17 at 14:31

JPi

13,595

While the OP's question did not use the words, his/her MWE indicated verbatim content. – Steven B. Segletes Aug 21 '17 at 14:33
Ah, hadn't noticed that... – JPi Aug 21 '17 at 14:35
Well, this works with not font size warnings, but I could not put the verbatim on it. I tried: \NewEnviron{myenvironment}{\scalebox{.2}{\par\verbatim \BODY \endverbatim\endgraf}} – user Aug 21 '17 at 14:37
1

Ha, just came across this question: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/51239/verbatim-in-environ-s-body Seems to answer yours. – JPi Aug 21 '17 at 14:39

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 26 '22 at 12:40

Quite similar to \scalebox in column specification operator >{...}, however verbatim also cannot be put inside hbox so you need the primitive setbox as suggested in https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/41707/250119:

%! TEX program = lualatex
\documentclass[10pt,a5paper,twoside]{memoir}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\newbox\mybox
\makeatletter
\ExplSyntaxOn
\newenvironment{myenvironment}[0]
{
    \setbox\mybox\vbox\bgroup
    myenvironment~start
    \par
    \verbatim}
{
    \endverbatim
    \endgraf myenvironment~end
    \egroup
    \scalebox{.2}{\box\mybox}}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{myenvironment}
    test
\end{myenvironment}
\end{document}

I prefer \ExplSyntaxOn, but you can also % every lines.

Using minipage doesn't seem to work. – user202729 Jun 26 '22 at 12:47 — user202729, Jun 26 '22 at 12:47

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 26 '22 at 13:13

If you want verbatim mode, you can use fancyvrb

\documentclass[10pt,a5paper,twoside]{memoir}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[brazil]{babel}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[showframe,pass]{geometry}
\makeatletter
\newsavebox{\mybox}
\newenvironment{myenvironment}
 {\VerbatimEnvironment\begin{lrbox}{\mybox}\begin{BVerbatim}}
 {%
  \end{BVerbatim}\end{lrbox}%
  \par\smallskip\hrule\smallskip % or whatever you want at the top
  \noindent\scalebox{.2}{\usebox{\mybox}}%
  \par\smallskip\hrule\smallskip % or whatever you want at the bottom
  @endpetrue
 }
\makeatother
\begin{document}
Some text before the scaled verbatim
some text before the scaled verbatim
some text before the scaled verbatim
\begin{myenvironment}
test
\end{myenvironment}
Some text after the scaled verbatim
some text after the scaled verbatim
some text after the scaled verbatim
\end{document}

How to use \scalebox around my environment?

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