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I'm working on a document using the tufte-handout class in which I need to include some examples of LaTeX code for which I try to work with the package showexpl in the way it appears in my MWE:

\documentclass[twoside]{tufte-handout}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\usepackage[spanish,mexico]{babel}    
\usepackage{showexpl}

 \lstloadlanguages{[LaTeX]Tex}
 \lstset{%
     basicstyle=\ttfamily\small,
     commentstyle=\itshape\ttfamily\small,
     showspaces=false,
     showstringspaces=false,
     breaklines=true,
     breakautoindent=true,
     captionpos=t
 }

\begin{document}
\begin{LTXexample}  
\begin{itemize}
\item Introducción a \LaTeX
\item Texto con \LaTeX
\begin{itemize}
\item Reglas básicas
\item Entornos de texto
\begin{itemize}
\item Incisos, citaciones y poemas
\begin{itemize}
\item \textsf{quote}
\item \textsf{quotation}
\item \textsf{verse}
\end{itemize}
\item Listas
\begin{itemize}
\item \textsf{itemize}
\item \textsf{enumerate}
\item \textsf{description}
\end{itemize}
\item Texto alineado horizontalmente
\begin{itemize}
\item \textsf{flushleft}
\item \textsf{center}
\item \textsf{flushright}
\end{itemize}
\item Texto mecanografiado
\begin{itemize}
\item \textsf{verbatim}
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{LTXexample}
\end{document}

However, something goes wrong, and seems to be unable to compile. I don't know if it has to see the width of the typographic case in this class or if it's because it can't works in two columns.

I receive the following error message:

Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:\expandafter not set up for use with LaTeX.
Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined

It only happens wihen I try to introduce a LTXexampeenvironment. Otherwise the compilation runs well.

Aradnix
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2 Answers2

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The problem is not the document class, but the accented letters from Spanish (in this particular case, "ó" and "á"). The known workarounds for listings: using literate or even escaping the accented characters to LaTeX (suugested, for example, in How to insert code with accents with listings?) won't work for showexpl since non-ascii characters get lost when the temporary file internally used is written.

I'd like to suggest you the powerful tcolorbox package and its nice interaction with listings; here's a little example (adjust the settings according to your needs; in particular, you need to add support for accented uppercase vowels, the crema and the eñe):

\documentclass[twoside]{tufte-handout}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[spanish,mexico]{babel}    
\usepackage[many]{tcolorbox}
\tcbuselibrary{listings}

 \lstset{%
     language=[LaTeX]TeX,
     basicstyle=\ttfamily\small,
     commentstyle=\itshape\ttfamily\small,
     showspaces=false,
     showstringspaces=false,
     breaklines=true,
     breakautoindent=true,
     captionpos=t,
     literate=%
       {á}{{\'a}}1 
       {é}{{\'e}}1 
       {í}{{\'i}}1 
       {ó}{{\'o}}1 
       {ú}{{\'u}}1 
}

\tcbset{
  example/.style 2 args={
    colframe=red!50!black, 
    colback=red!50!black!5,
    fonttitle=\small\sffamily\bfseries, 
    fontupper=\small,   
    fontlower=\small,
    text outside listing,
    title={Ejemplo~\thetcbcounter: #1},label={#2}},
}
\newtcblisting[auto counter]{micodigo}[3][]{example={#2}{#3},#1}

\begin{document}

\begin{micodigo}{ejemplo de listas}{eje:lista}
\begin{itemize}
\item Introducción a \LaTeX
\item Texto con \LaTeX
\begin{itemize}
\item Reglas básicas
\item Entornos de texto
\begin{itemize}
\item Incisos, citaciones y poemas
\begin{itemize}
\item \textsf{quote}
\item \textsf{quotation}
\item \textsf{verse}
\end{itemize}
\item Listas
\begin{itemize}
\item \textsf{itemize}
\item \textsf{enumerate}
\item \textsf{description}
\end{itemize}
\item Texto alineado horizontalmente
\begin{itemize}
\item \textsf{flushleft}
\item \textsf{center}
\item \textsf{flushright}
\end{itemize}
\item Texto mecanografiado
\begin{itemize}
\item \textsf{verbatim}
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{micodigo}

\end{document}

The result:

enter image description here

As Ignasi suggested in his comment, you can avoid the use of literate by using the listingsutf8 package. In this case, you load tcolorbox as follows:

\usepackage[many]{tcolorbox}
\tcbuselibrary{listingsutf8}
\tcbset{listing utf8=latin1}

A complete example:

\documentclass[twoside]{tufte-handout}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[spanish,mexico]{babel}    
\usepackage[many]{tcolorbox}
\tcbuselibrary{listingsutf8}
\tcbset{listing utf8=latin1}

 \lstset{%
     language=[LaTeX]TeX,
     basicstyle=\ttfamily\small,
     commentstyle=\itshape\ttfamily\small,
     showspaces=false,
     showstringspaces=false,
     breaklines=true,
     breakautoindent=true,
     captionpos=t,
}

\tcbset{
  example/.style 2 args={
    colframe=red!50!black, 
    colback=red!50!black!5,
    fonttitle=\small\sffamily\bfseries, 
    fontupper=\small,   
    fontlower=\small,
    text outside listing,
    title={Ejemplo~\thetcbcounter: #1},label={#2}},
}
\newtcblisting[auto counter]{micodigo}[3][]{example={#2}{#3},#1}

\begin{document}

\begin{micodigo}{ejemplo de listas}{eje:lista}
\begin{itemize}
\item Introducción a \LaTeX
\item Texto con \LaTeX
\begin{itemize}
\item Reglas básicas
\item Entornos de texto
\begin{itemize}
\item Incisos, citaciones y poemas
\begin{itemize}
\item \textsf{quote}
\item \textsf{quotation}
\item \textsf{verse}
\end{itemize}
\item Listas
\begin{itemize}
\item \textsf{itemize}
\item \textsf{enumerate}
\item \textsf{description}
\end{itemize}
\item Texto alineado horizontalmente
\begin{itemize}
\item \textsf{flushleft}
\item \textsf{center}
\item \textsf{flushright}
\end{itemize}
\item Texto mecanografiado
\begin{itemize}
\item \textsf{verbatim}
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{micodigo}

\end{document}
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Gonzalo Medina
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listings cannot handle utf8 characters. Use xelatex instead of pdflatex. However, only two byte characters are possible.

\documentclass[twoside]{tufte-handout}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{showexpl}

\lstloadlanguages{[LaTeX]Tex}
\lstset{%
    basicstyle=\ttfamily\small,
    commentstyle=\itshape\ttfamily\small,
    showspaces=false,
    showstringspaces=false,
    breaklines=true,
    breakautoindent=true,
    captionpos=t,
}

\begin{document}
\begin{LTXexample}  
\begin{itemize}
  \item Introducción a \LaTeX
  \item Texto con \LaTeX
  \begin{itemize}
    \item Reglas básicas
    \item Entornos de texto
    \begin{itemize}
      \item Incisos, citaciones y poemas
      \begin{itemize}
        \item \textsf{quote}
        \item \textsf{quotation}
        \item \textsf{verse}
      \end{itemize}
      \item Listas
     \begin{itemize}
        \item \textsf{itemize}
        \item \textsf{enumerate}
        \item \textsf{description}
      \end{itemize}
      \item Texto alineado horizontalmente
      \begin{itemize}
        \item \textsf{flushleft}
        \item \textsf{center}
        \item \textsf{flushright}
      \end{itemize}
      \item Texto mecanografiado
      \begin{itemize}
        \item \textsf{verbatim}
      \end{itemize}
    \end{itemize}
  \end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{LTXexample}
\end{document}

enter image description here

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    This works with normal listings, but not with showexpl. The non-ascii-chars get lost when the tempory file is written. – Ulrike Fischer Jun 25 '15 at 16:46
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    @GonzaloMedina: One can get the correct output by adding the literate-option to the explpreset key, but one still get errors. tcolorbox is certainly a better option than showexpl. – Ulrike Fischer Jun 25 '15 at 17:30