Questions with this tag are about the uses, and also problems with using, the `soul` package for letterspacing, underlining, overstriking and highlighting, perhaps also using colour.
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Highlight text in code listing while also keeping syntax highlighting
I’m using the listings package for code listings. Now I try to highlight some part of the code using \hl from the soul package.
Here’s an example of a resulting query where the injected part of a SQL ...
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votes
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Why does underlined text not get wrapped once it hits the end of a line ?
Sometimes I want to underline some text, and it extends past the end of a line. Why does \underline{} not automatically wrap my text for me ?
Also, how can I underline text so that it will still ...
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votes
2answers
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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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votes
1answer
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Custom command inside soul package's \hl
I'm having trouble with the soul package and its \hl command. The soul package's manual says I should not nest soul commands, which I didn't. \textsc works inside \hl. However, the following throws an ...
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votes
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Environment to underline/strikeout for comparing versions
I have a TeX file that I'm editing with several collaborators and we use environments to highlight and discuss proposed changes like the following:
Some text.
\begin{old}
Text that I propose to ...
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Why is it that coloring in soul in beamer is not visible
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{soul,color}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\hl{Hello World}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
I process this with pdflatex and I do not see the expected highlight.
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votes
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conditional highlighting with soul
The journal PLoS ONE, says in the FAQ
When submitting your revision, you will need to include the following new files:
[...] A ‘clean’ copy of your revised manuscript.
A revised manuscript with ...
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votes
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bug with page numbers when using soul package
I recently ran into a curious bug when using the soul package. I
managed to boil it down to the following example. The problem is that
the page numbers get messed up. In the example below, they should ...
6
votes
1answer
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Using a \phantom{} in \ul from the soul package
In responding to how to typeset a Long underscore in LaTeX, I attempted to use a \phantom with \ul, but end up Argument of \makeph@nt has an extra }. So, what is the proper way to use a \phantom ...
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votes
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soul's \ul{} breaks wrapfigure and textflow?
Please, I have a nice picture without that \ul{...}, but i need that.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{soul}
\begin{document}
\begin{wrapfigure}[3]{l}{30mm}
\Huge 1
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votes
1answer
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Letterspacing memoir section headers
I'd like to add letterspacing to the \section commands with \setsecheadstyle in a memoir book.
I tried using soul:
\sodef\soSection{}{.1em}{.5em plus.1em}{.1em plus.1em minus.1em}
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votes
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How to make overlaid text?
Is there a nice way to overlay text in the space of one character?
So if text is overlaid as I described it would almost result in a black square.
