Highlight text starting from the middle of line

Question

I am using tcolorbox to highlight text. However, the color box starts from a new line even if I start highlight from the middle of a line.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\tcbset{enhanced jigsaw, boxrule=0pt,colback=yellow,arc=0pt,auto outer  arc,left=0pt,right=0pt,boxsep=0pt}

\begin{document}

This is a text that
\begin{tcolorbox}
I want to highlight. This further continues to multiple lines and paragraphs.
\end{tcolorbox}

\end{document}

I would like the highlight to start from the middle of line and then continue till the end of highlighted section of text which may span multiple lines and paragraphs, and may also end in the middle of a line.

I have also tried soul package with \hl command but it leaves a white space between the lines even if I change the height of highlight.

Thanks in advance for help.

Answer 1

You can use the package soul and command \hl{•} to choose what sections of your text you want to highlight. (Just as you would do with bold fonts command \textbf{•}.) For instance, you can use it like this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color,soul}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
This is a text that:
I want to \hl{highlight}. This further continues to \hl{multiple lines and paragraphs}.
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

It would look like this: