Questions tagged [color]
{color} is about using color in (La)TeX documents. Popular packages are color and xcolor.
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Using \color inside a \parbox causes vertical displacement
When modifying my answer to this question I came across some odd behaviour.
If \color{<color>} is used at the start of a top-aligned \parbox, then the entire box is moved downwards, like this:
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Equal Width monospace text with changing colors in the same line
I'm trying to create something like the following in Latex:
I've tried to \usepackage{color} and put this:
\ssmall\begin{ttfamily}
\begin{center}
\colorbox{yellow}{...
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Same shading for the patches in the same plane (2)
I am trying to plot and shade a 3D figure using patch table with point meta as in question "Same shading for the patches in the same plane", but I am obtaining triangles in the same plane but with a ...
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What is the simplest, most canonical way to change the background color of quoted text?
There are many questions in this site on changing the background color of quoted text, but I am bewildered and disheartened by the huge proliferation of different ways to do this, each using a ...
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How to change the color of an equation? [duplicate]
\documentclass[10pt,landscape,a4paper,svgnames,x11names]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utopia,sfscaled]{mathdesign}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\everymath{\...
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How to adjust custom colormap for 3D shades based on degradation of a color tone
I have this figure:
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1]
\begin{axis}[xmin=0,xmax=1,ymin=0,ymax=1,enlargelimits=false,xlabel=$a_1$,ylabel=$a_2$]
\addplot [blue!80!black,fill=blue,fill opacity=0.4]
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Color and pagebreaks with footnotes
My question is: is there a way to color text despite that text spilling over into the next page on the output PDF (and with a footnote at the bottom of the first page)?
I am colour-coding an 80-page ...
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Insert pages of pdf in document
I a pdf file that contains the "first" page of each chapter, 26 in total, of a book I wrote. I use \includepdf[pages=1]{foo.pdf} for the cover and works fine. But, when I go the chapter 1 and use \...
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Insert pictures inside a color box spanning the whole page width
This question led to a new package:
clrstrip
this is a very noob asking, as I do not use any graphics in LaTeX usually...
I want to put pictures inside a color box : something like that
with a ...
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Create a macro for colored versions of "\cmark"
\cmark has been defined as follows
\newcommand{\cmark}{\ding{51}}
I am using the \textcolor{red}{\cmark} to show the red tick
How do I make a macro for this?
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Remove color transitions in header of LaTeX beamer Darmstadt theme
The Darmstadt theme of LaTeX's beamer class produces color transitions/shadings (?) in the header part, which I find not very nice in certain color combinations. Is there a way to produce clear cuts ...
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How do I overload siunitx command \SI to make it appear in color everywhere?
In my latex document, I have used units like:
\SI{100}{\eV}
I want to overload \SI such that it appears makes both arguments appear in color everywhere \SI is used?
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Cayley graph of with generators emphasized by color
I am trying to make the Cayley graph of a free group of rank 2 in TikZ. The result I would like to obtain looks like this:
but arrows are not required. I read Cayley Graph of Free Group in TikZ and ...
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Put the first chapter letter in uppercase and change the color?
I want to change the look of my chapter:
The first letter should be in UPPERCASE.
The first letter should be in different color.
Before and after the chapiter, I want some decoration: | My chapiter |
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package clash between auto-pst-pdf and trimspaces
The code below is an MWE illustrating a clash between the auto-pst-pdf and trimspaces packages. Code is a bit complicated because of the various things I want to do, but I've stripped all of ...
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pgfplots: how to use "index of colormap" to specify a color?
The MWE below uses the pgfplots function index of colormap to specify the color of a drawn path. However if I uncomment the second \draw command which explicitly uses the color= key, I get Package ...
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Cell color problem
I have a problem that I can not color all the box
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{cfr-lm} % instead of the "[cyr]{...
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Change Color of Text inside a block
I want change the color of a word in a block.
I used colorlinks, but the links will be coloured by the default colour is red.
\hypersetup{
colorlinks=true,
linkcolor=blue,
}
\cventry{08 July 2018}{...
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Color names in foreach loop
Edit: I can't delete this question despite it being based on a silly mistake. Please don't waste time reading/answering.
I'm trying to draw a row of boxes which alternate colours, and I'm using a \...
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How to combine cgloss4e, colouring and pinyin?
This is a follow-up to this question.
In this new question, I would like to be able to combine the colour-altering commands provided in the previous question with the automatic pinyin encoding of the ...
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How to colour text inside aligned gb4e gloss examples?
I am using the package gb4e to gloss a number of linguistic examples. Its main feature, is that it aligns the words in the original language with glosses.
I would like to be able to change the font/...
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Fill area between vectors with color
I have the following simple code:
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.40]
\coordinate (Origin) at (0,0);
\coordinate (XAxisMin) at (-1,0);
\coordinate (XAxisMax) at (1,0);
\coordinate (YAxisMin)...
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How to change the color of \faQuestionCircle in Beamer?
How to change the color of \faQuestionCircle in Beamer?
\documentclass[
aspectratio=169
]{beamer}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\usetheme{Darmstadt}
\setbeamerfont{section in head/foot}{...
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Use hsb color model
How do you define colors using hsb color parameters? I need a certain hue and want to fiddle with the saturation and the brightness. The xcolor package documentation does not explain how to use \...
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Row color complete [duplicate]
I have a problem with the color of the rows and I have searched and tried several solutions and I have not been successful. I can set the color of the row without problem, but the colo does not occupy ...
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How to color labelnames in bibliography? [duplicate]
I would like to have the names of authors/editors (editors only if no authors given) in a certain color (e.g. red).
\documentclass[%
]{scrbook}%
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{filecontents}
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How to change colour within equation? [duplicate]
I’m using article class, and I want to change colour within the equation tag, multiple times. I found that using mathmode I can change colour, but I want to use equation tag instead. After having the ...
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commands with variable adds horizontal spacing in text
I am using the following command to create two version of an article, one
where changes with respect to the first version are showed in blue
and a second one that is supposed to be the final version ...
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Custom color for LaTeX output in Sphinx documentation package
I am trying to customize the color of the LaTeX inline formula when using Sphinx documentation package, and html output.
The details:
I have a file called func.rst, which includes the following line:...
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How to choose a different color for structure text in notes
Is there a way to typeset structure with different colors in the presentation (slides) and in the notes?
My slides use white font on a black background (for the students to see while I talk) and the ...
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PGFPlots custom colorbar for heatmap
plotting data from a matrix as a heatmap works so far. The z values are percentages from 0% to 150%. The problem is that i can't define the colors properly.
The colorbar should look like this:
[0% - ...
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Change the color of a counter number
I have created a special environment (called 'psalm') that splits the text into verses, formats them, and enumerates them. I would like to also make the numbers of the verses appear in \textcolor{...
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Words with swedish letters don't show in \hl{}
I want to highlight a Swedish word with \hl{en kassör}, but the word kassör just disappears and only en is highlighted.
I use the pdfLaTex compiler in v2 Overleaf.
I use the following code:
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Horizontal shaded frametitle in the CambridgeUS theme [duplicate]
I would like to modify (as simply as possible) the frametitle color of my frames but without changing anything else : I currently use the theme CambridgeUS and basically I would like to modify my ...
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Error Conflict between fourienc package with amsmath pakage
I type a below document using fourienc package and amsmath package
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,txfonts,ulem}
\usepackage{fouriernc}
\usepackage[utf8]{...
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Adding color and lines in a preloaded table (text file)
I apologize in advance if this has already been asked. I've tried numerous combinations but to no avail. I have a text file with ~60 rows and 3 columns. The first thing I did (successfully) was to ...
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Hyphenation of camelCase inside an \ifthenelse while using custom hyphenation command
While writing software documentation, the need arose for a command that automatically hyphenates camelCase words at uppercase letters, e.g. camel-Case. Furthermore, these camelCase words are typeset ...
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Colored headrule - fancyhdr
Using the provided line of code here changes successfully the header color but creates a gap between the headertext/colorbox(lheadtext, rheadtext) and the header:
Is there a way to color the header ...
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Color only one item in numbered list
Say I want all of the text on the second line "(a) Cat" to be in red (including the numbering and parentheses "(a)"). Everything else remains black. How do I do this?
\documentclass{article}
\begin{...
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How do you change the colour of the subtitles in beamer slides (lower title)?
My question relates to the Beamer templates. I am looking to change the lower title (underneath my name) on my slide but it stays black. I have no idea where to start for this solution.
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Lualatex: Change the colour of a specific character
This is similar to Change the color of capital letters and the MWE below is modelled on egreg's answer. It works up to the point of correctly changing the first character in the input string. What I ...
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How to make a comparison table with check
I start with this:
\documentclass[border=2mm]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[h!]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{c|c|c|c|}
\hline
& hello & ...
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How to discard pages from PDF output without affecting text color
I need to output only 1 specific page from LaTeX document for which I use the pagesel package; the text itself has \color set which is discarded along with the first page.
The whole text, both pages, ...
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Change colors of the rules in minitoc
I'm deseperatly trying to change the colors of the rules in minitoc.
I tried differents things :
Try 1 : Change all hrule colors with
\makeatletter
\let\old@rule\@rule
\def\@rule[#1]#2#3{\...
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Abstract colored background with frame lines
Is there a way to get the colored box around the abstract more even and with blue lines at the top and bottom edges?
Like here in this journal:
I am using default TeXStudio, this is my code so far:
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How to use xcolor to color a pgfplot
How do I use xcolor to color a specific cell from a table in pgfplots? Is xcolor the best tool to use here? I'm trying to loop over a list of colors and color the cells in the column individually.
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How to get same background color all over header in threeparttable
I am trying to get the entire header area (the two rows between \toprule and the long \midrule) of the table area to get the same background color (without any whitespace), but it doesn't seem to work....
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Color difference in moderncv and moderntimeline
I'm playing around with the moderncv and moderntimeline package to create my CV. However, if I specifiy that moderntimelinecv should be in blue the color dosn't match with the blue from the moderncv ...
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How to display colors of Octave code in latex with listings?
In my paper I include Octave code with
\usepackage{listings}
No I want that the text and numbers be written in the same colors as the are represented with in Octave. Everything is fine, except that ...
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Adding text color in beamer
I am trying to use \usepackage[usenames, dvipsnames]{color} package given here .I am using \color{RubineRed}{NameName} to change the color of the text NameName.But, the color of the text doesn't ...
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