%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 3-4-13 on page 158.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}

\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{color,fancyvrb}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\renewcommand\FancyVerbFormatLine[1]
  {\colorbox{green}{#1}}
\begin{Verbatim}
Some verbatim lines with a
background color.
\end{Verbatim}
\renewcommand\FancyVerbFormatLine[1]
  {\colorbox{yellow}{\makebox[\linewidth][l]{#1}}}
\begin{Verbatim}
Some verbatim lines with a
background color.
\end{Verbatim}
\end{document}