{color} is about using color in (La)TeX documents. Popular packages are color and xcolor.
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How to edit the length of a color box?
I've typed my Resume and Im using a color box, with a line underneath it. However the grey colored box doesn't reach the full length of the page width.
\documentclass[letterpaper,11pt]{article}
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monochrome and pstricks
I am creating a file type images for presentation / written, I have been interested in the monochrome package xcolor, but by using it I have not obtained the expected results, check the documentation ...
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Using color with \marginpar
I'm using the package marvosym and the triangle symbol \Rewind with \marginpar. To draw attention to the symbol, I would like to have it be in red. How do I do this?
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Indentation and page colors with standalone
Question
I want to create a page whose size is cropped to the size of the content on the page. I also want to be able to have indented paragraphs and to set the color of text and background. Is there ...
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Is there a simple way to “brighten” or “darken” a color?
For example, I have color #009b55 (ForestGreen), and I want to get a slightly brighter version of it - #00a85c. Is there a function that can do it for me?
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change page number color of latex beamer
I need to change the page number color to black in latex beamer. What do I need to add to the following code?
\defbeamertemplate{headline}{page number}{%
\vskip1pt%
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How to color numbers in axis?
I want to color the numbers 3 in blue and -1 in green as show in the picture below.
My code is this :
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
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Highlight / color parts of text
LaTex newbie here. Currently using vim with solarized color scheme to edit .tex documents.
When writing I often jump around to different parts of the document, leaving gaps behind to work on later. ...
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Problem with beamer documentclass: xcolor.sty not found [duplicate]
I am trying to run the following code:
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\mode<beamer>{%
\usetheme[hideothersubsections,
right,width=22mm]{Goettingen}
}
\title{Simple Presentation}
\author[D. ...
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Oversized colored row in beamer block
As a follow up to this question, I am trying to insert tables in my beamer presentation so that they have the same style as blocks. However, I want to avoid using rules in my tables, and I am trying ...
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How do I prevent \cellcolor from over effect of \hline
I'm trying to add HTML code based color to my table, like so:
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\begin{tabular}{ |>{\columncolor[HTML]{F2FAF8}}c| p{11cm} |}
\hline
CELL 1 & CELL 2\\ \hline
CELL ...
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Citation colour with Beamer + Hyperref + Natbib
I'm using natbib for citation with a custom bibstyle. I'm working on a presentation using LaTeX beamer and for some reason the citation marker doesn't have the colour that is specified to hyperref. ...
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Question about beamer - Head shaded with CambridgeUS
Related to my previous question about beamer, now I have another one:
How to change the color on the head shaded from the light gray to the light green.
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XML with Listings: Different colors for attributes and elements
How can I make every attribute name in color X and every element name in color Y without adding keywords and stuff?
What I did so far:
\lstdefinelanguage{myXML}
{
morestring=[b]",
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Emacs / AUCTeX — Customization of keyword highlight syntax
font-lock-keyword-face is used by AUCTeX for all keywords, and I have not been able to find a way to create a new keyword that is a different color.
I have defined the foreground of ...
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titleformat has no effect!
I have tried to specify the color for my section as shown here, but it has no effect. What am I doing wrong?
MWE:
\documentclass[10pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{multirow}
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Color and efficient vector graphics
I want to use complex monocolor vector graphics but I would like to be able to specify the color inside my latex source. Solutions :
Use a pdf, but I can't specify the color afterwards. Perhaps a ...
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Changing color and header of beamer with CambridgeUS
How to change the red color for
- the titles
- the topics
How to adjust the position of the header1 and 2?
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{CambridgeUS}
% Set Color ==============================
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Breqn color and background options ignored?
I have this simple latex code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{breqn}
\begin{document}
\begin{dmath}[background={red}]
1+1=2
\end{dmath}
\end{document}
However using ...
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Getting a particular kind of page border using background package
I am doing my project report using latex, and the format requires a particular kind of page border around each page. (Its a black thick box enclosing a thin box).
I saw this question,
Multiple border ...
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How to divide document for black and color printing?
Most of my document is black text, but there is a color figure here and there. I would like to print the text on a black and white printer, and the figures on a color printer. I know i could just ...
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How can I avoid the gap between \cellcolor-colored cells created by \tabucline?
I'm trying to partially separate rows from one another using \tabucline. The line encompasses column 3-6. Since the line's width is neither part of the upper, nor the lower row, there is going to be ...
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How to set foreground (text) color in xcolor table? [duplicate]
How do I pick the foreground (text) color in xcolor table for the whole row? such that the letters appear white with blue background in this table (instead of black which is bad for constrast):
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Change TikZ nodes color to grayscale
Say you have some code like this:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
% \PassOptionsToPackage{monochrome}{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
% \selectcolormodel{gray}
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Beamer: how to change the mini frames coloring
I want to do the following changes to the mini frames coloring:
All previous frames almost the same solid color as the background so that the squares are barely visible.
The current frame and all ...
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Getting Yellow Background color on link
can anybody tell me how to apply a yellow background color on pdf links (especially on hovering the mouse over the link). For example, I would like to have the same yellow background effect that ...
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How to change the color of symbols (mobile, email, homepage, etc) in moderncv?
I'm able to style the contents (color, font size), but I can't change the color of the symbol.
Here's the code I'm working with:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{moderncv}
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Beamer: how to change the mini frames from circles to rectangles
I would like to change the mini frames from circles to rectangles and also make the already viewed symbols the same color as the background and future symbols the color of foreground.
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Beamer: changing footline background color
I would like to make the footline color black and the text white. I found this: Beamer: Background Color for Footline
but didn't understand how it applied to my example.
\documentclass{beamer}
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Center displayed, boxed equation within environment
I would like to center, with respect to the page margins, a displayed equation that is boxed and is within either an enumerate or itemize environment. Below is an example of what I have. Notice that ...
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Set the width of a fcolorbox
Hi a very basic question I'm sure, but is there a way to tell \fcolorbox in xcolor to draw the box of a certain width.
For example with \fbox I would do
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
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opacity and shading of an ellipse
I am making a picture of the tidal force effects on the Earth. My current picture is decent but I would like where the bulging occurs on the edges to be little bit darker in blue, but I don't want ...
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LyX table border colour
I have a multi-row table in LyX, with black horizontal borders at the top and bottom of the table. I would like to insert other horizontal borders inside the table that are grey rather than black. ...
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Matching Brackets in TeX output
Is there any ways or features to make pdf-files using one of TeX systems so that when I move the cursor to one of brackets (either open or closed brackets) in pdf, then the bracket and the other ...
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colors in tablecells in LaTeX
I'm making a tabular and I want some of the cells to be colored. So I searched how to make colored cells. I now have the following:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor,colortbl}
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How can I make footnote text color match body text color?
How can I modify the following code to also make the footnote text blue (globally, for all footnotes), like the body text?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color}
\begin{document}
\color{blue}
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Create a new environment that uses a verbatim environment
Consider the following:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{environ}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{color}
\NewEnviron{vred}{%
\color{red}
\begin{verbatim}
\BODY
\end{verbatim}
}
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How to change the color of bullets in a list
How can I change the color of bullets in a book?
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{pifont}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{myblue}{RGB}{0,29,119}
\begin{document}
\begin{dinglist}{110}
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Creating additional color for moderncv
I'm trying to create an additional color for moderncv, but am seeing unexpected behaviour.
I've created a file called moderncvcolorburgundy.sty, by copying the file for the purple color. I've changed ...
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Two colors in one hyperlink
As usual writing a few documents. As one can see having too much color and gloss in a document is never good. Therefore having boxes, and a myriad of colors in the hyperlinks is a bad idea. I really ...
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How to use color in `caption` package?
I am using caption package to customize captions in my thesis. My current code is:
\usepackage[width=0.6\textwidth ,font={small, sf,it},labelfont=bf,
labelsep=endash, ...
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Good-looking luminosity function plot
I'm trying to make a good-looking photopic luminosity function plot. So I want to make colored plot, but its colormap should depend on X values. Is it possible with pgfplots?
I'll also appreciate any ...
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Error using Minted for syntax highlighting in custom document class
I am writing Master thesis in LaTeX and want to use minted package for source code syntax highlighting. I have installed it successfully and minimal example from minted documentation works just fine.
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Alternate Row colors in longtable
I am using
the method proposed by Nikos Alexandris in "How to apply alternate row coloring in a longtable in LyX?"
works to a limited extent but the shaded rows does not fill the whole width of page. ...
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lstlisting in a box?
My problem is that I am trying to write a document with coloured sections for examples. Examples can contain code listings. Somehow I can't seem to combine a background colouring with a listing, or ...
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Regular expressions in listings
I'm looking for a possibility to use regular expression in listings. I'd like to highlight each N thats followed by 4 decimal numbers for example N1234. How can I achieve that?
Here is an example:
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Cell coloring (highlighting) with in-out effects in a table in beamer
I need cell coloring (or highlight effect) in a cell of a table in beamer after a click (I mean, I am planning to talk about something in that frame and I will emphasize just a number in a cell at the ...
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RGB EPS figures appear as CMYK in LaTeX
When I make EPS figures in Matlab and/or Illustrator, they look RGB, however, in the DVI file and in the subsequent PDF or PS file it appears CMYK. When I open up the figures outside of LaTeX, they ...
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Highlighting code like one would in a SE post
When posting on SE, users can "highlight" code by using the ` symbol. Is there any way to get that in LaTeX?
My intention is to highlight segments of code or particular functions. To be clear, I'm ...
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Background color for existing floats (e.g. w/o defining a new environment)?
I'm trying to make all my figures (including caption) backgrounded with a decent color.
I already found these questions with some nice answers:
How to set a background color of figure environment?
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