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how to change the color of the rule (vertical line) in twocolumn document?

I'd like to make the rule between the 2 columns very thin. I found that no matter how small of width I made it, the line was not thin enough for my liking (unless I make it zero, then it will ...
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1answer
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Strange disappearing colored rules in beamer

I have received a booktabs bug report of \cmidrules that disappear when coloured rules are used inside beamer (together with colortbl). The problem can be illustrated with the following simple code ...
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votes
1answer
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Style Parcolumns vertical bar

How can I style the vertical bar in parcolumns that appears when using rulebetween=true? I am trying to do something similar to what you can do with \vrule like the below: ...
2
votes
1answer
111 views

Custom vertical page border

I wanted to have a vertical colored bar running on all my pages, to the left of the page, in between the beginning of the sheet and the beginning of the text. Something like: |\| text | |\| text ...
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2answers
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How to change the shaded color of the \rule{…}{…} command?

To change the shaded color of the \rule{...}{...} command, one solution is \textcolor‎{‎blue‎}{\rule{2cm}{2cm}}‎ but I want to know how can I directly change the color of this command globally?
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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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votes
2answers
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Adding borders to an entire row in a table

I have a table with multiple rows (a regression table). I would like to add a coloured border highlighting one particular variable. I have found a way to border one cell at a time but is there a way ...
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2answers
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\hhline adds white line where no line is intended

In a table, containing colored cells, i want to have a \hline dividing only some cells, similar to \cline but compatible with coloring single cells with \cellcolor, which is possible by using \hhline ...
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\cellcolor overwrites table lines

I have a table which I want to fill with multiple colors, each cell possibly different from another. Which means, I can't make use of e.g. \columncolor (as in this post). While the table without any ...
8
votes
1answer
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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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votes
2answers
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How to change line color in tabular?

How can I change the color of the lines (the frame) in a tabular environment? In the following MWE: \begin{tabular}{c|c|c} a&b&c \\ \hline d&e&f \\ \hline g&h&i \end{tabular} ...
7
votes
1answer
472 views

How to prevent a page break between section title and colored rule?

I use \usepackage[explicit]{titlesec} to customize the design of my sections, subsections... In particular, i have : \titleformat{\section}% {\large\sffamily\bfseries}% {My Section \arabic{section} ...
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votes
3answers
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Can I have the \overfullrule rule colored in pdfLaTeX?

I know that I can use \overfullrule=5pt to get overfull lines marked with a black marker. I am using pdfLaTeX. Is there a way I can get this marker or something similar in magenta instead?
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votes
1answer
329 views

Color running over the doublerule separator in a table

I want to draw a simple colored table with 4 columns. First row is a multicolumn row which spans columns one and two. There is one doublespace between columns 2 and 3. When i apply color (blue in this ...