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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 ...
6
votes
2answers
131 views
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 ...
3
votes
2answers
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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?
...
3
votes
1answer
166 views
How do I change the background color of a footer in beamer
I know just enough about beamer to be a danger to myself. I am trying to change the color of a footer in Boadilla and am struggling.
First, I have declared
\usecolortheme[named=black]{structure}
...
3
votes
1answer
135 views
page background color for Part
I want to set the background color specifically for the page created for each "Part" section in my document (e.g. Part I xxx, Part II xxxx). I am using the book document class. Solutions for setting ...
0
votes
1answer
116 views
Turning off all colors and background images in beamer
Is there a command to turn off all colors in beamer ?
I have a tex file (beamer) where I have used a lot of colors. Just in case, the colors don't show well on the projector, I wanted to turn off all ...
9
votes
1answer
513 views
Background color gradient for entire document
Is anyone aware if it's possible to change an entire document's background to a fading color?
In other words, can you take silver and slowly fade it to white from left to right and have this same ...
27
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2answers
715 views
Partially coloring cell background to fake histogram
Excel has a cool feature called "data bar" conditional formatting that allows the user to partially fill a cell background to create histograms based on cell contents. Here is a screen clip example ...
9
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2answers
231 views
Table with partially colored cells
I convinced my girlfriend to write her thesis with Latex, so now whenever she gets stuck I'm the go to guy. Sadly she has requested something of me which I don't know either. She needs a table in ...
1
vote
1answer
195 views
lstaddons: Dynamic linewidth calculation
I use the package called "lstaddons" (creator, initial question) to get colored line backgrounds on listings.
I want to color the whole line to the frame.
What I miss there is a dynamic calculation ...
6
votes
2answers
742 views
Matrix change row or column background
I have a matrix shown below. I would like to have the whole row green rather than only the cells ... how can I do that?
\begin{equation}\label{eq:appendrow}
\newcommand\x{\times}
...
9
votes
3answers
519 views
Enumerated text and formula with background color
I want to have an enumeration with text and formulas with a background color, but \colorbox does not work, here's my code:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{shadethm}
...
5
votes
1answer
415 views
change pdf standard background color
How is it possible to change the acrobat's background color when someone opens my pdf?
My pdf is produced by XeTeX (using hyperref package).
Take a look of the following picture of two different ...
9
votes
2answers
922 views
Abstract with light background color
Is there a way to add a background color to the abstract? I tried various combinations of \colorbox and the \begin{abstract} ... \end{abstract} environment, but nothing worked.
I use the current ...
4
votes
4answers
881 views
Verbatim environment with background color (PDFLaTeX and tex4ht)
I need to make a verbatim environment with gray background color, such as:
That needs to work with PDFTeX and tex4ht on an older TeX installation (from 2009 I believe). My approach so far is
...
8
votes
1answer
316 views
Inconsistent appearance of white \hline on black background
Are there known issues with the appearance of white text on black background?
When I use several \hline in a table I get different appearances for the lines. It could appear as normal or weak or ...
11
votes
1answer
3k views
How to change white background of an included PDF to transparent
I have an external 100 pages PDF document (not created by pdflatex) that I \includegraphics page-wise into a beamer presentation. The external PDF document employs white as page color, but I need the ...
3
votes
1answer
490 views
White horizontal lines in lstlisting
I'm having the following problem: I'm using the listings package to render what is supposed to look like a teminal screenshot. But the background colour is striped. In my other code snippets the ...
6
votes
4answers
1k views
Giving headlines a background color spanning across the entire typearea
I posted this at stackoverflow and got redirected here. This does indeed look like a better place to ask.
I would like to decorate my headlines (section, subsection, etc.) by adding a background ...
8
votes
2answers
930 views
Background color for fancyvrb
For reasons unclear to me, fancyvrb doesn't have a background option. However, the minted package, which it is based on, has one, which suggests it should not be too difficult to add.
The relevant ...
2
votes
2answers
124 views
Smaller font sizes in boitecoloriee environment gives bad result
The boites package defines environments that allow page breaks inside framed boxes whose edges may be variously fancy. The bundle includes a few examples (shaded box, box with a wavy line on its side, ...
4
votes
2answers
462 views
Fixed marginpars with gray background in KOMA-Script
I am an newbie looking to achieve a sort of two column effect with my LaTeX report - I am using LaTeX KOMA-script as a base.
I want my margin to appear in a different background color, (say) gray, ...
6
votes
4answers
542 views
Background color for the caption of a listing
I'm considering this piece of code
\lstinputlisting[
language=C,
breaklines=true,
basicstyle=\scriptsize\ttfamily,
numbers=none,
...
8
votes
2answers
612 views
Screen friendly/easy on the eyes background
Do you have suggestions on how to make a PDF file easier to read on a computer screen?
By this I mean anything which isn't changing the format and layout, as this has been discussed in other questions ...
5
votes
2answers
952 views
Background overflows when using rounded corners for listings (package: `listings`)
I'm using listings to list code in my document, and I want the code to be displayed in a frame with rounded corners and a grey background color. But the background overflows the frame, as if the frame ...
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2answers
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How to change the background color only for the current page?
How can I change the background color only for the current page? I found that I can change the color with \pagecolor{color} but that unfortunately changes the color for all pages after this command. ...
6
votes
3answers
2k views
Highlight environment by setting a gray background color
The title explains everything. I have a theorem with ntheorem and want to highlight it with a gray background color. What would be the easiest way to achieve this?
4
votes
1answer
4k views
Change text background within paragraph (with automatic linebreaks)
How do I change the text color as well as the text background color for e.g. a sentence within a paragraph? I know \textcolor for coloring the font and \colorbox for background coloring ...
2
votes
1answer
2k views
Background color in Verbatim
I've to use the yellow background for data values in the following code.
\usepackage
\begin{Verbatim}[commandchars=\\\{\}]
\color{blue}DATA \color{black}Heart;
\color{blue}INPUT \color{black}X Y @@;
...
6
votes
3answers
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Setting background colour for part of a page
I am designing a business card using the memoir class and hints given here and am trying out various background effects. Specifically, I would like to change the background for the last third of the ...
5
votes
2answers
6k views
Colored fancy boxes
I am trying to produce some fancy boxes. I have found the fancybox package that does the boxes I want.
What I can't find now is: How do I change their background color?
I would also like to make the ...
12
votes
1answer
5k views
Changing style of alert environment in beamer
I would like to specify a background color in the alert environment. I can, for example, use
\setbeamercolor{alerted text}{fg=blue}
to change the colour of the alterted text to blue, but this
...
12
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2answers
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Change the background color of a frame in Beamer
How can I change the background color of one frame in my Beamer document? I tried doing
\begin{frame}
\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=violet}
% frame contents here
\end{frame}
but it ...
4
votes
1answer
971 views
Change float background colour
Background
Including images within Algorithm floats. The images are trimmed to size automatically by a batch file.
Problem
In the following portion of the PDF, Listing 1.1 has a lot of space to the ...
28
votes
3answers
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How to create alternating rows in a table?
Sometimes you can see in books tables, that have alternating background color for rows in a table to support readability. How I can achieve this with LaTeX?
And yes, I could put macros \odd and \even ...
