linenumbering with listings package in latex

Question

I am trying to insert a code snippet with the listingspackage, and want the lines numbered. However I would like only every 5th line and the first to be numbered (numbers beeing(1,5,10,15,...)) according to the manual: ``` stepnumber=5 ``` should do the trick, however using my minimal example (see bottom), I get the line numbers 1,6,11,16,... May be I misinterpreted he manual 8did that once before), however I am clueless. If a real latex guru is around, there would be something I would like even more, having every linenumber printed however every fifth in bold/ a different style numbers than beeing: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ... however since this is not in the doku I am sure it requires some deeper latex/listings knowledge. P.S.: There is one more oddity, eventhough I put "numberfirstline=false" I get the line number 1 ( I get that linenumber as well without setting numberfirstline, which should default to false), it is jsu in there to point out that something is wrong. I am using mikt…

Accepted Answer

You can get the desired numbering like this:

```
\lstset{
  numbers=left,
  stepnumber=5,    
  firstnumber=1,
  numberfirstline=true
}
```

linenumbering with listings package in latex

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