{color} is about using color in (La)TeX documents. Popular packages are color and xcolor.
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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 ...
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Options and suggestions for hyperref font?
Background
I am interested in finding and implementing a more aesthetically pleasing style for the hyperlinks in my document.
I have read through the documentation, but I find both the colored text ...
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Avoid addition of spaces when using colorbox in equations
Colorbox adds some spaces when I use it in equations. E.g. in
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\colorbox{yellow}{${a^2}+b^2=c^2$}
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Beamer - Undefined Color: “local structure”
I have some question concerning the \setbeamercolor{<element>}{local structure} in beamer:
In presentations I use to give full bibliographic references directly on the concerning slide via the ...
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Is there a way to color (only real) math in pdflatex?
I'd like to change the color of all math in my document. I understand that several packages and some engines provide support for changing the color of all math, and I understand that something like
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Is it possible to have multiple paragraphs inside a multicolumn using xcolor or a replacement?
I am getting information written by users in many lines, paragraphs, and I have to put those inside a table, I would like to know if it is possible to instruct LaTeX to accept paragraphs inside a ...
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Glossary link's color
How can I change the color of glossary links when using glossaries along with hyperref? I just want to change glossary link colors not all links.
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A few words in a coloured/grey background box
How can I write a few words with a grey highlighting box in the background, as shown in the picture below ("TEXT 4")?
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Coloring Arab suffix without losing connection
How can I change the color of Arab word endings without losing the connections?
It's just ugly and loses readability. I'm using Tex Live 2012: arabxetex with xelatex but any package and/or engine is ...
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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 ...
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Fancy Theorem Environment and Colors
I'm trying to make a boxed theorem environment with colors.
I thought I had done it, but I was mistaken--lists were the wrong colors.
In the picture above, I would like the "list" to be the same ...
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How can I change the color of digits when using the listings package?
I'm using the listings package and was already able to modify the color of the keywords and almost all elements I was interested in. The only thing that remains is the color of the digits. I'd like to ...
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Changing color and bullets in Beamer's table of contents
Does anyone know how to change the color scheme and/or bullets used in Beamer's table of contents (without changing the overall structure color or theme)? Unfortunately, the following doesn't work:
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Coloured equation number (without changing colour of reference using hyperref)
I am working on a file where I am using the package hyperref so that the references to equations are linked and coloured. Here is a MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
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Undefined color error, if have symbol in Chapter Title
I am getting an Package xcolor Error: Undefined color 'RED' if I use a red symbol in the Chapter title. In the MWE below, commenting the last \chapter results in an error. There seems to be no ...
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Brace from {cases} environment disappears after rowcolors*{1}{…}{…}
I use rowcolors*{1}{...}{...} to color a table, then I use it again (with white as arguments) to reset the color. After that, braces look weird (they disappear slightly).
If I use scrbook, book, ...
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Different color for individual bar in bar chart & adding bar labels
Please consider the following MWE.
There are three things I would like to do:
Individual colouring For the last element ("not rejected") I would like to fill the bar with another color (e.g. ...
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Alpha channel in colortbl
I'm using the colortbl package to color table cells. I've combined this w/ the xcolor package to define my own colors. However, it appears that xcolor does not support transparency. I saw the ...
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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 ...
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Is it possible to invert/substitute the colors of included graphics?
I want to use the beamer package with a white on black style to create presentations. I included a simple switch to choose black on white for printout. Is there any possibility to also invert the ...
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How to prevent Beamer from changing the normal text color when I change the footnote color?
When I change the footnote color in Beamer using \setbeamercolor{footnote}{fg=blue}, I end up also inadvertently changing the normal text color on all other slides. To make things even stranger, the ...
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In xcolor, what is an easy way to experiment with color choices?
I want to check color choices in xcolor, for example for row coloring of a table. Is there a site for
code ⇒ color; as in you play with the code and see what color you get
color ⇒ code; you choose a ...
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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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How to construct a coloured box with rounded corners
Here is the specs of the box.
Color of the bar rule should be:
\definecolor{mycolor}{rgb}{0.122, 0.435, 0.698}
Radius of the 4 corners of the box: 4pt
Thick line = 0.5pt
Text should be 6pt ...
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Change color in finished pdf file
Suppose I have a finished PDF file, say a figure generated from some software, where the ink is black. I would include it in a document. Suppose I want to include it in a beamer presentation with ...
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No text=none in TikZ?
In TikZ, there are draw=none and fill=none options to turn off stroking and filling operations. However, there doesn't appear to be a corresponding text=none option. If I try \tikz \node[text=none] ...
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How to color just the `\vec` symbol?
How do I color only the vector symbol in \vec f? I'm using beamer, so xcolor is already loaded.
Extra "points" to an answer that also explains how to fish..and not only gives me the fish.
Thanks!
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Change border color of \fbox [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there an \arrayrulecolor-like command to change the rule color of \fbox?
I'm using an \fbox to have a border around a minipage.
\fbox{
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What is the difference between \textcolor and \color?
I would like to define a new command to work as an alert command. If I want to alert some part of my text I would simply write \alert{}. But I want the result in red color.
What is the best way to ...
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Best way to create colored text boxes
I am retyping some old exams into LaTeX, and I encountered the page below
Now with some clever commands, and whatnot I was able to create something almost identical. Though the spacing is a tad ...
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Changing color of default enumeration
To my surprise, I've had trouble finding red themes, and used the beamer theme matrix to find CambridgeUS. I've changed the itemized bullets to match, but I can't seem to make the enumerations red. ...
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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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How can I clear the color of \title in \titlepage?
I use the Madrid theme with the beamer class and need to customize the \titlepage.
The first thing is to remove the background color of the \title on the first page (\titlepage).
I searched TeX.SE ...
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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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Add colour to margin notes
I'm using LyX with XeTeX and the KOMA-script article class. I'm trying secsty and fontspec for the first time.
I'm trying to do a unique layout with large outer margins. On some pages I will put key ...
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How can I set the background color of the rows and columns of a matrix node in Tikz?
I have a matrix where some cells have nodes while others don't, with rows and columns of varying size depending on the biggest nodes in them. In this matrix, I would like to have the background of ...
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How to keep hue from going beyond 300° in xcolor/pgf? (Doing math in pgfplotstable)
Ok, this is probably an incredibly trivial question for anyone who knows more about xcolor or pgf or TikZ or whatever really. I tried to use a hue scale for a heat map/color matrix with values ...
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What beamer environment is text within a frame?
I'm going crazy just trying to change the color of the text within a frame environment.
\begin{frame}[plain]
I want this text to be red!!!
\end{frame}
I have tried almost every single environment ...
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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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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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Shaded Multicols
Does anyone know how to shade the background and put a border around a multicol environment, where page breaks are needed.
There is a couple of posts around, most notably, multicols within colorbox, ...
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Isolated coloring of math symbols and boxes in equations
I know that by using a package like xcolor I can use $\color{<color>} <math symbols>$ to typeset math symbols in my preferred color. But how can I isolate the color to specific symbols ...
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beamer dark theme
I have a very simple question - there are a bunch of beamer themes, however, all of them have white background. I would like to use some theme, let's say Warsaw (since it is perfect), however I'm ...
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Add colors that depend on chapters to the TOC
I'would like to add different colors in my TOC, depending on the chapter. I've a color for the header, section subsection of each chapter (red chapter one, blue chapter two etc...). With this code I ...
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Change color of institute in the footer of a Latex presentation
I have a presentation that uses the theme Dresden with color theme beaver. Everything works fine, except for the name of the institute in the footer of the slides, which appears white on a very light ...
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Tikz fit-library vs fill (overlaying nested node colors)
I am trying to figure out the best way of nesting tikz nodes having a different background color. I would like the "inner" nodes to "win" concerning the background color. Currently the "outer" node ...
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How to define a random number with xcolor and tikz/pgf
I tried to get a random color with xcolor and tikz:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[xetex, rgb]{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\pgfmathsetseed{1}
\begin{tikzpicture}
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How to make a perfect colour filled threeparttable table?
A three line table is used for my report. I want to fill lightgray background color to the whole table, but there is white space between rows, how to eliminate this issue?
Without \addlinespace: ...
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How to best set chapter title color in the memoir class's Hansen style?
I am tinkering with the Hansen chapter style for the memoir class, as reviewed and listed in texblog. The Hansen style is unfortunately not discussed in the memoir class documentation.
I changed it ...
