How can I draw oval circle around a string?

Question

How can I draw oval circle around a string? For example, when I have "1,3,4,6", how can I put them in a circle?

Answer 1

The shapes.misc library offers the rounded rectangle shape. You can also use the shadows library to add shadows.

\documentclass[border=3pt]{standalone}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.misc,shadows}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}[baseline=(char.base)]
\node(char)[draw,fill=white,
  shape=rounded rectangle,
  drop shadow={opacity=.5,shadow xshift=0pt},
  minimum width=1.8cm]
  {1,3,4,6};
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

Answer 2

I found this code works fine with me.

\usetikzlibrary{arrows}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}
\newcommand{\mymk}[1]{%
  \tikz[baseline=(char.base)]\node[anchor=south west, draw,rectangle, rounded corners, inner sep=2pt, minimum size=7mm,
    text height=2mm](char){\ensuremath{#1}} ;}

\newcommand*\circled[1]{\tikz[baseline=(char.base)]{
            \node[shape=circle,draw,inner sep=2pt] (char) {#1};}}

Hello, \mymk{1,2,3,4,5} world \circled{1}

Refer to How to draw a circle around text and Good way to make \textcircled numbers?.

Answer 3

Just for comparison, here is a ConTeXt solution:

\defineframed
    [roundframed]
    [
      corner=round,
      location=low,
      loffset=0.1em,
      roffset=0.1em,
    ]

\starttext

Hello \roundframed{1,2,3,4} world.

\stoptext

which gives

Answer 4

Sorry, I don't have the ability to add comments on the TeX site yet. You can look at the thread dustin mentioned. Alternatively, you can use a box: $\boxed{1,3,4,6}$, which will appear:

Answer 5

Here is one solution using tcolorbox...

   \documentclass{article}
     \usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}

    \begin{document}
    \tcbox[enhanced,drop shadow,colback=white]{\Large 1,2,3,4}
    \end{document}

The out put is..