{color} is about using color in (La)TeX documents. Popular packages are color and xcolor.
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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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Adding words to lstlisting for Python langaue
I wish to add a few keywords to some python code inserted into a latex document. I want to make 'True' & 'False' appear yellow and also some module calls such as 'ttk' appear red. I have tried ...
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lstlisting: how to align highlighted code
I want to define a couple of new commands in order to highlight parts of my code (this is actually for a trace dump, not for a programming language).
My problem is that I can't seem to make the ...
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Redefining formatting commands to add colors
I'm writing a document, and I'd like for all bold text to be red. I was wondering how I could renewcommand the textbf command so that it would be wrapped in \textcolor{red}?
Thanks
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Filling the arrow tip and not the path using two different colors
I have a small problem with some arrows but I can't seem to find a solution. Please note that this question is different from Setting fill color for TikZ arrow tips only (and not the path itself), ...
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Rowcolors and tabularx: Colors not reset in each new table [duplicate]
I'm having an issue with rowcolors from the xcolor package.
Whenever I use rowcolors before a table, it seems that the row counter does not reset with each tabularx environment.
I read that ...
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Set background color of a box with predefined width
I would like to have something like a minipage with colored background, i.e. a box where you can predefine the width and the background color. My attempt
\colorbox{green}{\begin{minipage}{\slwidth}
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How to put a legend for \cellcolor{blue!25} in my table caption?
I would like to put a reference to \cellcolor{blue!25} in the table's caption. Is it possible? Also why is the table so massive even in a makebox? I don't want to use resize, looks unprofessional.
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cancel with different colors
I have equations with a lot of terms and I would like to be able to specify the reason of the cancelation of those terms using a color code (for example : red if the term is null, blue if it cancels ...
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Included PDF gets corrupted after Acrobat’s color conversion
I found a strange error … I’m typesetting a musical score with Sibelius 7. And to add some text and notes I use LaTeX (i.e. xelatex but the error is the same with pdflatex). To get a complete PDF of ...
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If a letter is white on white background, does a printer see it?
In preparation for press printing, I would like to produce a version of a document for printing a glossy varnish layer, where all the text is "missing", but the images and other elements are at the ...
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Color the faces of a graph
I want to modify the image (see code below)
by shading in the regions formed by the dashed lines that contain a black dot. The goal is to obtain something like
How can I shade these regions?
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Using Coloured Dots for References
I'm writing a document which contains multiple copied entries of several online dictionaries. In order to make the references simple enough, I thought of assigning each dictionary a colour and to put ...
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Undefined control sequence with Color Package in Custom LaTeX document class
I have the following class file shown here:
%
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesClass{puseniorthesis}
[2008/05/02 v1.4.1 Princeton University Thesis class]
\RequirePackage{setspace}
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Does anyone have a “\newrgbcolor{colourname}{x.x.x}” list?
When I want to use colours in LaTeX, I normally use this colour chart of predefined colours that LaTeX knows by name:
However, I've recently needed to use pstricks (I think it's called) and to use ...
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revtex4-1 and colortbl doesn't fill cells
The MWE below shows that the \cellcolor command doesn't properly fill a table cell in revtex4-1 where it would do so in a simple article. Can anyone help me get fills that extend to the boundaries of ...
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Is it possible to reorganize coloring/highlighting priority in Texmaker?
I want to be able to see latex commands in Texmaker while in mathmode, but the settings file does not seem to account for priority via line rearrangement, so I was wondering if there was a way to make ...
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RGB colour macro: is it possible to divide by 255 in Latex?
I'm fiddling with source code display (Objective-C) and the listings package. I want to colour comments the same green that appears in XCode. I determined that it has an RGB value of 67, 133, 34. To ...
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How can I use color in a mathematical expression without losing horizontal spacing?
How can I use color in a mathematical expression without losing horizontal spacing?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{red}{HTML}{dd0000}
\begin{document}
\[3+(-5)-2+3\]
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Why \nointerlineskip if background of Beamer-color frametitle is empty?
I'm trying to read the source of Beamer default outer theme (the file beamerouterthemedefault.sty). In line 144 there is this code:
\defbeamertemplate*{frametitle}{default}[1][left]
{
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bug(?) with certain colors in mindmap TikZ [closed]
Bug: For a specific concept color, one node (first child) is drawn (sometimes partly) white.
Image describing the bug
The same problem should occur for east1, but for the fact that I found a hack ...
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Add some text on an inserted PDF
I had inserted a pdf file in latex
use this code
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
\usepackage{mdframed}
\begin{document}
\includepdfmerge{hello.pdf,1}
\end{document}
I want to insert some text ...
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Colorbox inside Multicols
So I am using the multicols environment and I want to have the background of some portions of the column colored.
However, I see that multicols does not play well with xcolor and colored sentences ...
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Why is pdflatex automatically loading a ConTeXt package and crashing
If I process the following MWE with pdflatex (TeXLive 2012, Linux)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color}
\def\mymacro#1{#1}
\begin{document}
\pdfinfo{/Title (Some text \textbf{This macro causes ...
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How to color citation brackets using hyperref?
I want to color the brackets of inline citation like: some text[9] where it is written in latex like this some text\cite{9}. Now hyperref only colors the number "9" without the brackets "[]". Is there ...
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\autoref with links that include only the number, but not the text, and have counter-dependent colors
I would like the functionality of hyperref's \autoref, but in a way that the link border box covers only the number and not the preceding text (e.g. "section"). This is normally possible with the ...
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Best practice for hyperref link colours?
I'm using the hyperref package with the option colorlinks=true. However, I'm not happy with the default link colours: for instance, citation links appear in a flamboyantly bright green that hurts my ...
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Use of shaded box for section numbering only?
I have been wondering "how to get shaded box for section numbers only"?
Also, How to get grey square in between left mark and page number in the header? In code below I can get solid black square.
I ...
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Re-color alphabets in mathmode
In user700902's answer to this thread, the following code is suggested to color alphabets A-Z green:
\makeatletter
\def\colorizemath #1#2{%
\expandafter\mathchardef\csname ...
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LaTeX color setting for math mode
I'm wondering if it's possible to do something like this in LaTeX:
For all numbers (0, 1, ..., 9) in math mode, color it red. For alphabets (a, b, ..., z, A, B, ..., Z) in math mode, color it green. ...
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Colored “sum” in display math mode
The line
\[ \textcolor{green}{\sum}_{k=0}^n \]
makes the k=0 and n parts go to the right of Sigma instead of at the top and bottom, as it should be. Can we retain k=0 and n at the top and bottom?
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Robust colored background for parts of the document
I would like to set off certain parts of my document by giving them a colored background. With the help of adjustbox I was able to write an environment that does more or less what I want: It puts its ...
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Uncovering items with changing bullet color
In this case consecutive items get covered. How could I change this behaviour so that all items would be black and only bullets would get different colours?
\documentclass{beamer}
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\everymath and author color
Consider the following example:
\documentclass[11pt]{paper}
\usepackage[usenames]{color}
\definecolor{foo}{rgb}{0.75,0.0,0.0}
\everymath{\color{foo}}
\title{something}
\author{someone}
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Placing text at random positions on the screen in beamer
I am creating a presentation and for the Q&A session slide, I want to show question marks (?) in various colors and sizes in random locations on the screen.
Is this possible in beamer?
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Why keywordstyle is not taken into consideration no bold, no red color?
When I have this code with .sty file from here
\begin{lstlisting}[language=Go, firstnumber=1, captionpos=b, caption=Golang, label=amb]
// You can edit this code!
// Click here and start typing.
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PDFLaTeX Color Space
Background
Am using TeX Live 2012, pdflatex, and latexmk to produce the document, on Ubuntu Linux.
Problem
In the following image, Okular is shown on the left and Adobe Acrobat Reader is shown on ...
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Automatically choosing preset color schemes in pgfplots based on number of entries
This is really more of a question to satisfy personal curiosity than to solve a real problem.
When choosing the colour schemes for my plots, I try to select colours that will work well with the ...
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Is there a way to assign different colors to different authors in fixme?
I use fixme in multiuser mode, and would like different authors to have different colors (like the track changes feature in word). I know that I can use todonotes, but I like the fixme interface (and ...
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Problem with \rowcolor and monochrome option
I have a document that I wish to distribute both in color and monochrome. It contains tables and makes use of colored rows. Problem is, when I use the monochrome option for the xcolor package the ...
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How do I debug the message “Argument of \XC@definec@lor has an extra }” [closed]
Can anyone provide me with some intuition about what might cause an error like this?
Argument of \XC@definec@lor has an extra }
I am unable to produce an MWE that demonstrates the error, as it ...
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why are table lines are not black? [duplicate]
my problem is that the lines of my tables (not all but most of them) are not really black but gray. Furthermore, the gray lines are also thinker than the other, which makes my tables look really bad.
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How to color the ToC and the references with a different color?
As the title reads, I'd like to color my ToC in let's say red and the references in my document with another color let's say blue.
here's a MWE of my document :
\documentclass{report}
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link size and color (nameref)
I create a link with \nameref:
\section*{\Huge {\color{DarkRed}This is a headline}}
\label{sec:headline}
When I reference to this section with
\nameref{sec:headline}
The link is displayed the ...
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Automate replacement of `\not` when in `\bm` mode
Hendrik Vogt has provided a \longnot macro to alleviate the issues related to
Interaction of \boldmath and \not. This seems to work fine, but I run into a snag when I try to automatically use ...
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How to recreate the following table in LaTeX similarly?
The following is the original table
and I have the following code
\begin{table}
\caption{February}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{c|c|c|c|c|c|c}
\hline
M & T & W & Th & F & S ...
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how to color the header's bottom line or footer's upper line?
The title is self-explanatory.
In my document's current state, I get this rendering result after compiling with XeLaTeX :
Here's a MWE of which packages and commands I use to obtain my current
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Chapter colorized in different colors
Is it possible to give to each chapter a different color coming from something like a color array?
I basically know how to colorize text, but for that purpose the color value is fixed. What I want to ...
