{color} is about using color in (La)TeX documents. Popular packages are color and xcolor.
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Error when using colour in \author
I am getting an error when I try to use \color{} in the the author field with beamer, even though the file compiles and I get the the words I want coloured in the author field.
This is the error ...
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Extra space added after equation when it is coloured
For some reason space is added after my equation when I colour it. This does not happen if the colour is added to text.
Is there a simple way to prevent this from happening, like a global setting (I ...
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Multiple colour themes in one beamer presentation
I'm preparing a single seminar talk on three more-or-less unrelated results. In order to visually separate these results, I wanted to give each one a different (custom) colour theme for the ...
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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 ...
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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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Interaction of \boldmath and \not
It seems that using \boldmath (or \bm) along with the \not does not quite work so well. Here is an example using \not\subseteq and \not\le
where the line representing negation does not stretch ...
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\cancel draws under thing being canceled
I'm trying to use \cancel from the cancel package to strike out some colored text but it is apparent that the diagonal line is drawn first so it doesn't do a very good job of canceling.
Minimal ...
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\paragraphfootnotes with text colour
I am having some trouble with my footnotes becoming coloured in certain situations. In particular, I am wanting to use memoir's \paragraphfootnotes, but all the footnotes for a page become coloured if ...
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Relative padding of a minipage's paragraph
Background
Created a custom command for rendering quotations (epigraphs).
Problem
The text in the following image has no space at the border:
The word "and" is flush with the right-margin.
Code
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Inkscape → PDF → includegraphics → XeLaTeX → changed colors
I have an SVG file, which I have made/edited with Inkscape. I want to include this image in my thesis. The svg file is here: http://brussense.be/temp/theSVG.svg
(because Inkscape uses a non-standard ...
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How to construct a logic argument with colored hline with length under control?
How to construct a logic argument like this one?
I can construct it like this:
Latex of my argument:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{newtxtext}
\usepackage{newtxmath}
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How to make colored swatches inside text?
The following is an image of a sub-section of the documentation of the package xcolor.
How to insert such a color swatch within text? I need it to explain the functionality of different parts of a ...
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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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How to highlight important parts (with a gray background)
In the below link
http://www.math.uiowa.edu/~goodman/algebrabook.dir/bookmt.pdf
the author highlights anything which is important using a greyish color background. For example, if you see ...
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Color entire table
How do I get an entire table to get a background color. I dont mean the indivual cells but the entire table to get a gray shade. Something like this:
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How to color the font of a single row in a table?
I have a table and I want to make the font color red for just one row (not the background). How do I do that?
Here's my table:
\begin{tabular}{ l | l l l l }
& 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 ...
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How do I specify color in RGB using \hypersetup in hyperref?
How do I specify color in RGB using \hypersetup in hyperref?
I know that this is the right way to do it with color names:
\hypersetup{colorlinks,breaklinks,
urlcolor=Maroon,
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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 ...
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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}
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Recommended color for hyperlinks in a CV
I'm using the hyperref package, and I'm curious if there is a recommended color for hyperlinks. At the moment I am using urlcolor=BlueViolet which looks great onscreen, but when printed in b&w it ...
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How to “bubble in”/color fill an item counter ((A),(B),(C),…) in an enumerated list
I'm trying to make an answer explanation guide for a test where the correct answer is "bubbled in".
I've tried using the enumitem package and tikz as shown in this post (Enumerated list with blue ...
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Convert color name to pdfliteral code
How can I convert a color name (such as used with the xcolor package) to a pdfliteral code, like q 1 0 0 rg (for red)?
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Colored background in inline listings
I would like to make inline code more distinguishable from the text surrounding it, and I thought that using a background might work (like it is done on the stackexchange pages.)
Since I use the ...
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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 ...
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Coloring lines in an algorithm
I am using Beamer for creating a presentation and I am trying to highlight some lines in an algorithm. I am actually using algcompatible.
I found a solution here and created a couple of new commands ...
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How do I backcolor in verbatim?
I have some code I want to typeset as verbatim (lstlisting would be ok as well) - but I want to highlight some parts of it via a different background color, i.e. something like this:
\begin{verbatim}
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Change colour of boxes surrounding links in hyperref
How can I achieve in the following MWE that the box surrounding the link gets coloured in blue?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage[linkcolor=blue]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
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Using Color Commands for Math Operators
I was wanting to know how is it possible to create a math symbol in color to position correctly. I have used the following but the top limit does not center properly. Sorry for the verbage as I don't ...
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Heatmap of a triangular matrix (or a sparse matrix)
So let me first of all shamelessly steal heatmap code from this answer to Drawing heatmaps using TikZ
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
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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 ...
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Using patterns inside pgf shapes
Is it possible to (correctly) use patterns inside a pgf shape definition ? For example, I try to define a shape as a rectangle filled with a pattern, like this
\usetikzlibrary{patterns}
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Remove keywords from code 'listings'
I tried to customize a code listing to support some pseudo-code format that suited me best. It was easy to add keywords using otherkeywords or morekeywords, but the opposite, the deletekeywords did ...
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Creating pdf with inverted colors using pdflatex (like white on black etc)
Is there a simple way of a creating PDF with inverted colours?
A partial solution would be just changing font to white and making the background black.
Is there simple "full" solution of inverting ...
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Is there a package to differently color nested expressions in the output?
Say I have an expressions like $(\sin(x-3(z^{(x-2)^2}))+1)^2$ with many nested expressions. To better visualize this in the output (and to help finding missing delimiters when proof-reading) I'd like ...
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Writing Biblical Hebrew texts with different coloring for consonants, vowel and accent signs
I have got the following problem: I am using Biblical Hebrew texts written in XeTeX but I would like to color consonants as well as vowel and accent signs differently. I have read Coloring combining ...
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How to color a region?
The following code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{intersections,positioning}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[radius=5]
\draw (0,0) rectangle (5,5);
\draw[name ...
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Fill the left 1/3 of the title page with color?
This is my first time to try and write documentation by using LaTeX. The generated PDF is quite impressive, but there is one thing I have no idea of how to do it:
I would like to have the left 1/3 of ...
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Height of colorbox
I'm trying to "highlight" two parts of a sentence by using a \colorbox like so:
\colorbox{red}{This is} \colorbox{blue}{a great sentence.}
The problem is that in the second part the height colorbox ...
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What are alternatives to block?
I use \begin{block} ... \end{block} to describe formalization of some notions, and I want to write some examples under it. I still would like to stick to the structure of a block (one part for title ...
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A version of colorbox that works inside math environments
I'd like to highlight particular parts of an amsmath environment. Here's a minimal working example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,color}
\newcommand{\abs}[1]{\lvert#1\rvert}
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Set \strut height
I'm using quite a few \colorbox and \colorfbox in a document but they weren't sitting at the same heights (because some words contained g and this seemed to push the box down.
The solution I found ...
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How can I change the colour of my document's section numbering?
I know how to change the colour of a section name using for example
\section{\color{Red} Foobar}
but that still leaves the section number in black. Is there any way to change the colour of the ...
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How to set the color of page number
I am using white colored font on black page and somehow I am losing my page numbers. I suppose the page number is still in black color. So How do we set the color of page number? And while on the ...
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How can I change the text color in such a way that the effect transcends groups?
I'd like to have a command \globalred that makes all subsequent text red, even if the command is issued inside a group. For example, the output of the TeX file
\documentclass{article}
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How to color delimiters
I have some special delimiters that I want to add to a glossary, those get hyperlinks and colors etc.
However when i want to use those delimiters, using \left, \right and \middle becomes impossible.
I ...
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Seamless background of subfigure bodies, but not captions
I have 3 sub-figures:
\begin{figure}
\subfloat[Apple]{
\includegraphics{apple}
}
\subfloat[Orange]{
\includegraphics{orange}
}
\subfloat[Cherry]{
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How to change color of some particular environment for entire document
I want to change color of particular environment in document.
For example wherever I found verbatim environment or equation environment appears in my tex file. With some global settings, I want to ...
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Colored box in new environment
I have a problem, I'm fairly new to LaTeX but I think I got the basics.
My problem is that wants to create a environment that can create a minipage with a background color and some text in it.
I can ...
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How do I replace Warsaw black to someting else, like color theme beaver does?
The Warsaw theme uses black for the left half of top and bottom bars, and blue for the right half. Theme color beaver replaces these two colors with two shades of gray. How can I do the same within my ...
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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 ...
