A command to emphasize a short content

[luciano de souza]

Hello listers,
Is there a Latex command to enclose a phrase in a centralized box? The
ideia is to give a big enphasis to a short content.
The content is mine, so I think is not appropriate to use quotation.
Actually, I am explaining something about the HTTP protocol. After
some explanation, as an example of HTTP request, I will say:

get http://www.mydearlatex.org http/1.1

How could I enphasize it with a Latex command?
Regards,
Luciano

[Peter Flynn]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:50 AM, luciano de souza <luch...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello listers,
Is there a Latex command to enclose a phrase in a centralized box?

For example:

\begin{center}

\fbox{A short phrase}

\end{center}

 

The idea is to give a big emphasis to a short content.

The content is mine, so I think is not appropriate to use quotation.

Correct. You could say

\newcommand{\important}[1]{%

   \begin{center}\fbox{#1}\end{center}}

 

Actually, I am explaining something about the HTTP protocol. After
some explanation, as an example of HTTP request, I will say:

get http://www.mydearlatex.org http/1.1

How could I emphasize it with a Latex command?

I wouldn't center examples, because they will all be different widths and will look very odd. I'd use the listings package and define the HTTP vocabulary so that it auto-highlights the keywords, eg

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}

\usepackage{listings,parskip}

\lstdefinelanguage{HTTP}

  {morekeywords={get,put,head},

  }[keywords,comments,strings]

\lstloadlanguages{[LaTeX]TeX,HTTP}

\lstset{basicstyle=\color{Black}\ttfamily,

  keywordstyle=\color{DarkGreen}\bfseries,

  identifierstyle=\color{DarkBlue}\upshape,

  commentstyle=\color{Gray}\upshape,

  stringstyle=\color{DarkRed}\upshape,

  emphstyle=\color{MediumBlue}\itshape,

  showstringspaces=false,

  columns=fullflexible,

  keepspaces=true,

  frame=single}

\begin{document}

The common form of a HTTP request looks like this

\begin{lstlisting}[language={HTTP}]

get http://www.mydearlatex.org http/1.1

\end{lstlisting}

\end{document}

///Peter