{color} is about using color in (La)TeX documents. Popular packages are color and xcolor.
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Remove ugly borders around clickable cross-references and hyperlinks
I know that I can use hyperref to make cross-references and hyperlinks clickable. That makes the clickable areas outlined in fluorescent green, however. How can I make the green boxes go away?
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\includegraphics PDF, color problem
I'm using pdflatex, and use \includegraphics to include content of figures from PDF. PDF are exported from InkScape.
\begin{figure} [!h]
\centering
\includegraphics[height=3cm]{fig/SUSAN.pdf}
...
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PDF colour model and LaTeX
(Strictly speaking, this is a question about XeLaTeX and the xcolor package but I’m assuming that the issue is actually with the color model of PDF.)
I’m having the problem that colours in my PDF ...
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How can I have colored and underlined links with hyperref?
I would like the internal hyperlinks generated by hyperref to be colored and underlined.
Reading some of the package documentation, I know that these \hypersetup keys exist:
colorlinks: when ...
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Listings package: How can I format all numbers?
I want to highlight all the numbers appearing in an input code of a certain program by, for example, coloring them. By numbers I mean integer, rational and floating point numbers. I am trying with the ...
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Block quote with big quotation marks
How can I create a block quote enviroment with big quotation marks similar to the Cquote Template of Wikipedia?
Additionally it would be nice to place both quotation marks and quote in a colored box ...
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Parametrize shading in table through TikZ
I wanted to do some shading in a table according to its values. For example, if you see the table below:
a b c d
a 90 10 0 0
b 0 80 10 10
c 0 0 95 5
d 0 10 5 85
I want to ...
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Rounded corner colored box around figure
I'm trying to get Rounded corner grey-colored box around figures.
One solution would be to use
\usepackage{float}
\floatstyle{boxed}
\restylefloat{figure}
but this results in black box around a ...
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Does anybody know a good source of (free) ornaments, decorations, frames, backgrounds etc.?
I'd like to prepare a "fancy" typographical project, more interesting visually than a "boring" black-on-white text. I'm not very talented at drawing, though, so I'd like to ask about a place to find ...
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Can I change the font and colour of a letter permanently?
For my lectures, I like to colour the symbols in the equations to make it easier to follow what's going on - a bit like syntax highlighting. So all vector spaces are one colour, all sets another, e ...
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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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Creating a zebra effect using listings
This question led to a new package:
lstlinebgrd (lstaddons bundle)
Friends, consider the following example using the listings package:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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How to draw text-anchored tikz line below text instead of above?
I wish to mark several pairs of from/to anchor locations in text, and use tikz to draw lines between these. The anchors are not in absolute page locations; the text determines where the endpoints of ...
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How to replace a large block of text by an empty block of the same size?
I know there exists the \phantom command, but does it work on large blocks of text (containing several paragraphs or even several pages)?
What I want is to have some commands, call them \hide and ...
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How can I put a coloured outline around fraction lines?
I use the contour package to put thick white outlines around labels in graphs, so they remain readable above the grid lines without taking up too much space.
Unfortunately, the package is not able to ...
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How do I get different colors for math and for text?
I want to include something in my LaTeX article that will make all mathematical formulae appear in black, while all text (including everything inside \text{}s in the middle of mathematical formulae) ...
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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. ...
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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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Gradient color in one cell of a table
I'm trying to create a tabular and I'm facing the following small issue.
I would like to make the background of one cell a gradient color. Is it easy to do that in LaTeX? And if so, how to do it?
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typesetting different characters with different colors in a DNA sequence
I have created a macro which I used to format DNA sequences, as they should be in the monospaced font and uppercased:
\newcommand{\DNA}[1]{\texttt{\uppercase{#1}}}
Now I have a column with some ...
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votes
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Colored symbols
First of all, I apologize if this is a repetitive question. I searched, but couldn't find it. I was wondering if I can change the color of symbols in latex. For example \ast always give me a black ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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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Why can't I wrap \rowcolor in \only? (Beamer)
See the following minimal example:
\documentclass[table]{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Boo}
\begin{table}
\centering
\small
\begin{tabular}{rcc}
\only<1>{\rowcolor{green}}Hey & ...
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Is it possible to change text color for all headings?
I want to change only the color (not font size, etc.) of all headings in my documents (\section, \subsection, \subsubsection, ...). I want to keep all other settings fixed.
Is there a way to do ...
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votes
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Coloring digits with the listings package
I'm trying to typeset some python code, and I would like integer literals to be highlighted. I've come up, after about two hours of fighting with the documentation and various other questions here and ...
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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 digits with the listings package
For my project, I've been using the listings package in order to color the keywords, comments, strings, and digits in the code.
The thing is, I've managed to color the keywords, comments and strings, ...
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Is there a way to have coloured hyperref hyperlinks in the PDF, but have them print “as if” they were black?
I like having my hyperref hyperlinks a different colour, so it's obvious that they are links. But when I print a copy of the PDF, I don't want the links to be coloured, because you can't click them, ...
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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 ...
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beamer: change individual bullet color for pros and cons list
Is there a "nice" way to change the color of individual bullet points?
For example imagine a list like this:
\begin{itemize}
\item A
\begin{itemize}
\item pro 1
\item con 1
\item pro ...
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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 ...
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Colored strings by listings package
I'm trying to type my C++ homework by LaTeX in order to prepare it as a pdf file.
I want to have my keywords in blue, my numbers in violet and my strings in reddish brown. I could do the two first by ...
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How to color math symbols?
One can use the command such as \textcolor[rgb]{1.00,0.00,0.00}{boundary} to color the word "boundary" in a document.
Here is my question:
How to color the math symbols in $$? For example, can one ...
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How to change color for a block of texts?
I am editing a LaTeX paper with Emacs. Sometimes, just for myself, I want to make a block of texts less obvious (or less important to see). Instead of totally hide them, I still want them to be there. ...
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How to get a colored box as the header?
I want to produce this particular template in LaTeX. With no page numbering, and rectangles in colours in a a4paper.
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Tables: Colouring odd/even mixed up
I have a huge document (around 100 pages) and a lot of tables in it. I used
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\definecolor{lightblue}{rgb}{0.93,0.95,1.0}
\rowcolors{1}{white}{lightblue} % odd = white, even ...
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how to create PDF in grayscale mode or TikZ figure only?
how to create PDF in grayscale mode?
convert PDF color in PDF grayscale.
I need the PDF in grayscale color.
Or in TikZ figure only.
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votes
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Getting the color from a beamer theme?
How do I find out what color a beamer theme uses? In particular, what is the color that the Singapore theme uses? I'd like to grab this color so that I can color my tables with it and remain ...
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Link formatting: colors, underlines in moderncv
Following the excellent advice in this site, I have started using moderncv for writing the new version of my CV.
Unfortunately, after converting to PDF, my http links work (clicking on them leads to ...
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Coloring columns in a table with colortbl and booktabs
I have created a rather complicated table with some columns that I want to color. For the table, I chose the booktabs and tabularx packages. For coloring the columns, I use colortbl.
The problem that ...
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votes
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soul: broken highlighting with xcolor when using \selectcolormodel
I try to highlight text using the soul package.
But I experience problems if I use it in combinations with the xcolor
command selectcolormodel, only spaces are highlighted as shown in the MWE:
...
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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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Color changes cell height in tabular
The following code shows that a \color{red} command increases the height of a tabular cell.
I want to use a switch, not a command as \textcolor{red}{text}.
\documentclass{article}
...
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Page border coloured
How to create a coloured page border for a document using KOMA-Script scrbook class?
Something like this:
(image taken from the memoir tutorial)
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Is it possible to use spot colors in TikZ graphics?
Using ConTeXt and Metapost, it is fairly easy to define spot colors and use them in an image:
\starttext
\definecolor[MyRed][c=0,m=1,y=1,k=0]
\definespotcolor[RedSpot][MyRed][p=1,e=MyRed]
...
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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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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. ...
