Questions tagged [color]
{color} is about using color in (La)TeX documents. Popular packages are color and xcolor.
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How to color a tag in a math equation?
I have a math equation with a \tag operator.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
This is my favorite equality:
\begin{align*}
\color{red}\...
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PGFPlots - Missing number, treated as zero error - when loading data from file
I am drawing a heatmap/scatter plot with the mark colour determined based on a score. I have mapped scores to Red, Green and Blue values, and trying to colour the marks based on the RGB values. The ...
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Colorize text using LuaLaTeX doesn't work
I need to colorize all occurences of certain symbols/words and so I followed the steps of this answer. This is a test code I have written in TeXstudio:
% !TeX program = lualatex
\documentclass[11pt]{...
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tabu+makecell+xcolor = Improper \prevdepth
The packages tabu, makecell and xcolor seems to interact in incompatible ways:
MWE:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{tabu}
\usepackage{makecell}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{...
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\pagecolor ignored when preview package used
When I use the standalone package's preview option, pagecolor is ignored.
MWE:
\documentclass[preview]{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\pagecolor{red}
\begin{document}
\color{...
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How to get colormap color to use in a \textcolor?
I have a tabular with a few values, which I want to color-code with \textcolor. The color scheme is given by a colormap:
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|} \hline
A & \...
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Colormap drawing order in parametric 3D tube
Similar to this question, I am trying to draw a parametric tube in a PGFplots 3D-plot:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.16}
\begin{document}
\begin{...
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Foreach and different color compilation error
if you execute this code there will be a compilation error, but if you replace red!\rnb!blue by red!20!blue it works fine.
\documentclass[border=2pt]{standalone}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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Change cell color in matrix
I am trying to color the empty cells from the first matrix with grey (\definecolor{grey}{RGB}{220,250,250})but I don't know why it does not work. Any suggestions?
\documentclass{standalone}
%\...
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Bold and Colored Image Caption
How can I color and bold an image's caption in \documentclass[12pt]{report}?
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\NAME equivalent for ntheorem?
I am trying to color only the NUMBER part of my theorems and corollaries. After some fiddling I was able to produce the following image which I am almost happy with
In the code below I have the line ...
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Color gradient in circle from center and keep transparency
So I am trying something: I want to have a loop reading out the position of circles from a dat file. The plotting already works very well. However now I want to implement a gradual shading from semi ...
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After implementing xcolor, simple table becomes buggy
When I am making a table with colored first raw using xcolor for my thesis, vertical line in first raw behaves differently in random (as visible in image "with color"). When I avoid coloring (just ...
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An elegant aspect for enumerate the equations of a book
I am trying to create this kind of enumeration for the various equations of my book, similar, as this image:
My MWE is:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{newtxtext}
\usepackage{...
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How to color a column starting from a specific row
I want to color a column, but only starting from the row that starts with C1. I have this example output. I want to remove the yellow color from the row before C1.
This is how it looks:
This is the ...
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Complex table of contents with 3 columns and backgroundcolor — realizable with etoc package?
I am currently working on the conversion of the production workflow from Indesign to LaTeX for a scientific open access magazine.
This journal has a rather complex table of contents with 3 columns (...
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Change Color of Font Once They Have Been Defined
I have defined the color of my fonts in the preamble. What I am trying to accomplish is to change the color of just one word within the document, but I am unable to do this.
Usually, within the ...
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Combination of TikZ and special tables: difficulty
With reference to two previous questions A specific format for nice tables and Some adjustments of a nice table of mine to which I had an excellent answer from all users, I for example used a ...
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How to reduce space between a text line and differents \hline in a table - trying to use negative \vspace value
On the following figure, I try to make decrease the space betwen the line "Nombre de bins : (Y1) :5 ..." and the two \hlines above.
More over, you can see that line "Nombre de bins : (Y1) :5 ..." is ...
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Making arrow with a gradual colour
I want to make an arrow that has gradual color as shown in the picture below:
First I wanted to make that arrow in one stroke, but I do not know how to make shaded color in postaction, so in the end ...
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tikz: draw multicolor curve with smooth gradient
Yes, I know there are several topics about, but no one referred to my case. While colormap seems works only with plots, how can I draw a multicolor curve with smooth gradient? This is my attempt:
\...
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How to globally change the color of tikz nodes?
I see here:
How to specify a fill color in RGB format in a node in tikzpicture?
It is possible to change the color of a node locally. However, I would like to add a background color globally to all ...
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Remove highlight in printed quoted line
In some journal, they required changes made to be highlighted in some striking color. Then, the revised paragraph also need to be reflected in the reply to reviewer section.
The tex below should do ...
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Latex: Highlight areas in listing using different backgroundcolor
I'd like to highlight areas in a listing using different background colors. It should look something like this:
This is a basic example with a background color for the whole listing:
\documentclass{...
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\lstset colorize numbers in code [duplicate]
I defined a syntax highlighting for my code like so:
\lstdefinelanguage{CSharp}{
sensitive = true,
keywords={assembly, class, method, field},
keywords=[2]{public, private, family, ...
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Change bullet color in TOC for current section only
In my TOC I would like to highlight the current section using a different color. Following the answers to
this question, I have managed to change the text color of the current section using
\...
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Change background color, without a new paragraph and across environments
{\color } can do that, but only for the color of text. I would want the same for the background. I have looked across many solutions, but they either can not go across environments (e.g. colorbox) or ...
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How to color tikz mindmap nodes by y-coordinate
In a mindmap, I would like to color (most) nodes according to their y-coordinate, that is, their height on the page.
For this, I am accessing the viridis colormap and sample its colors.
Using code ...
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How to colour a table with opaque colour such that no text and no lines are visible?
I am iterating a latex file and want to colour all the tables green such that no text or no lines are visible. I tried using "transparent" but it fades the colour along with the text. I want the ...
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How to change color to black with \citep
Edited Version
I am working on the template (MastersDoctoralThesis) downloaded from here
I searched a lot here for a solution to my problem but couldn't find, please be patient with me.
\...
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tikz - define color in hex format
I have a color hex string, e.g. ecd9ed, I know I can define it as below:
\definecolor{color1bg}{RGB}{236,217,237}
But I wish to skip the conversion from hex to decimal. Is it possible to define a ...
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Tikz color opacity spills over to page
for some reason, the use of the opacity option in my tikz diagram "spills over" to the rest of the page. Weirder still, this isn't visible from the preview window in texstudio, but it is when opened ...
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Tikzposter background color
I'm trying to modify the standard 'Desert' theme in tizkposter by changing the backgroud colour of the blocks to white and the poster background colour to the gray that is already set as a backgroud ...
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Coloured tables in ACM Master Article Template
I'm currently writing a text in the new ACM Master Article Template. I have a colour-coded table looking like this:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[table,xcdraw]{xcolor}
\begin{...
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Edge Coloring in graph
I'm looking for a simple solution to do Graph edge coloring, even following the tkz-graph documentation, seems my graph edges aren't being colored (neither line width is being changed), probably I'm ...
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Color background of Confusion matrix
So I have found this wonderful confusion matrix on this thread. I was wondering how could I add color to the background of the different boxes.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{...
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Automatic cell coloring with per-column minimum and maximum values
I want to color each cell in a table based on its value. I know solutions exist, but you have to set the minimum and maximum values globally for the table. They can be found for example in Are there ...
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Changing the color of environments in beamer
I have just started lerning Latex. So, it is possible that the following doubt is very easy.
I have to do a presentation with Beamer. I know that there exist specific comands to theorems, definitions,...
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Why there is a red color in right side?
I am using parallel package to write texts of different translation side by side, I found parallel package accomplished this side by side texts, here in Left column is in another language and the ...
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Clear xcolor color definition
I'm trying to create a command that creates colour palettes from a partially complete set of defined colours.
In order to make sure the palette is complete I use lines like this to use a fallback ...
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Color table with data from csv file with colors from csv file
I am trying to create a table (which is from a csv file) which cells are colored (from another csv file (this way I can do preprocessing externally)). I have looked briefly at tools such as datatool, ...
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Latex table: text does not center on cell
I'm trying to create a table in Latex, but the text does not line up in the center of the cell, in some cells, and leaves out of the table. How can I solve the problem?
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{...
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Set default colours for lines just as default width \arrayrulewidth?
In a table I want all the lines to be thick and in red color. I can change the width using \arrayrulewidth, but how to change the color to red?
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Latex colours not matching when seen using opencv
I am working on a project where I need to extract each cell in a table in a latex file. So I am coloring each of the cell with different color so that when I parse the png image of the file then I ...
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Including a greyscale PNG image gives wrong colorspace in resulting pdf file
I am preparing a large document that will be printed in one colour, and I tried including a few images in png-format that have been converted to a greyscale colorspace (DeviceGray). In the resulting ...
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tikz doesn't fill small figures
The usual command \draw[fill=<colour>] (<centre coordinate>) circle (<radius>); usually works just fine, however, when the radius is very small, for some reason it doesn't work ...
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Hatch with Shading
I would like to have a rectangle that has some hatch. Furthermore, the hatch should have some shading. But, I am only able to get a transition of the colors in the background. Does anyone know how to ...
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\noalign caused by multirow and colors
I am trying to create the following table
However, I keep getting the following error message
! Misplaced \noalign.
\rowcolor ->\noalign
{\ifnum 0=`}\fi \global \let \CT@do@...
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Math cases align being colored as a table
My cases environment is being colored as a table. I do not want that. Seems tikz is causing this, because removing it from document fix, but I use tikz everywhere in my real document.
Is there any ...
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color rows on table (Tabu package)
I am writing a table with colored rows using the tabupackage (2.10). For example
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tabu}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\...
