Questions tagged [color]
{color} is about using color in (La)TeX documents. Popular packages are color and xcolor.
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How to mark the space between words
I would like to make the space between words of a text "more visible".
Is there a way to colorize the word-space in a text?
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why \textcolor works but not \color in tex4ht?
In this MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{pifont}% http://ctan.org/pkg/pifont
\newcommand{\cmark}{\ding{51}}
\newcommand{\xmark}{\ding{55}}
\begin{document}
Why this is ...
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Using the % percent sign in lstlisting breaks text coloring
In my lstlisting, If I use a % sign, the highlighting for the rest of the file no longer works.
\subsection{Dereferencing pointers}
\par When you dereference a pointer, you are going to the ...
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How does one make just one word in the title a different color? [duplicate]
The following works to give the title all in black:
\title{The Title}
But this does not work to make the first word in the title red:
\title{{\color{red}The} Title}
How does one make just one word ...
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tikzpicture won't render 'usable' PS code
I use tikz (and tikzpicture) a fair bit, but files that used to compile fine before the latest slew of updates to pgf, and pstricks, no longer seem to do so (at least, on my MikTeX installation). The ...
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table cell colored with multirow lets text disapear behind next colored cell
I stumbled over something i do not know how to solve.
I don't even know about layers in latex but is seams like my text is disapearing behind a colored cell beneth it and that because i use a ...
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longtabu X-columns break with xcolor [duplicate]
Hello I have a few longtabu's in a document, some of those use xcolor to slightly alternate the row color. I have been using something similar as below for more than a year now, but updating my ...
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LaTeX equation that has white text on a transparent background
I would like to create a LaTeX equation that has white text on a transparent background, so that I can use it on an array of dark backgrounds in PowerPoint/Keynote.
\color{white}
\nopagecolor
\begin{...
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Multi-page footnote disrupts main text color, and pdfcolfoot not helpful
Original situation:
I have several documents with text color changging in various frequency (few lines to many pages for each color).
There are numerous footnotes in between, that should be colored ...
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Automatic change of the color for each \part
With reference to a question previously asked,
Replace \part of the appendix of Legrand Orange Book with letters of the alphabet instead of arabic numbers
I would like to understand which commands ...
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How to fill a right-angle mark with a color?
I fails to fill the right-angle mark with green color as follows.
\documentclass[12pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pst-eucl,pst-calculate}
\begin{document}
\begin{pspicture}(-.6,-1)(4.85,4)
\def\b{3}
\...
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Trouble transferring code snippets (table)
My latex knowledge is poor. I am trying to transfer this code snippet:
\documentclass{article}
%\documentclass[leqno]{uicthesi}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[initials]{amsrefs}
\usepackage[...
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Changing the color of \ref within the same document
Is there a way to reference things with \ref using a different color than with what \hypersetup assigns it? That is, I would like to reference a theorem with blue text in general, but at some point I'...
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Creating a Falcon's logo
I have been trying to trying to replicate this logo for my team (not to mention in LaTeX ofcourse:-)):
So where I am now:
\documentclass[11pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}% ...
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xcolor breaking \[ and align environments inside tabu
I'm having trouble with a "Bad math environment delimiter" when using certain math environments inside tabu. Minimal example:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{scrreprt}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{...
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Alternative to \textcolor{}{}
For my recent document, I have many words that I want to have a different color.
For that, I use the expression \textcolor{color}{word}.
It takes me a lot of time.
I'm wondering if there is a ...
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Coloring edges of a polygon differently
I would like to draw a regular 21 polygon, where the edges are labelled and have arrows in the middle using different colors. This is what I have done so far
using this code
\documentclass[...
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Coloring a path in a circuit
I have edited my code according to the answer.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{circuitikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\begin{circuitikz}
\draw (0,2.5) ...
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longtabu and color compatibility
After last update of TeX Live packages this code won't compile:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{longtable,tabu}
\usepackage{color}
\begin{document}
\begin{longtabu} to \linewidth {llX}
a &...
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Color the sides of a 3D box
I have wrote this latex code to draw a 3D box.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{circuitikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\begin{circuitikz}
\draw (0,0)
to[...
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Get default text color
I want to go (back) to the default text color. If the default color is black then I can use \color{black}. But I'm looking for a command for the general case where black may or may not be the default ...
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Locking Fields in Digital Signature 2
I am trying to use eforms to create a pdf where digital signature can be applied. Each document may have more than one digital signature field, i.e so the document can be passed from person to person. ...
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Bug or feature: tikz interprets color specification differently for rectangles
When drawing a rectangle, Tikz interprets color in two different ways, depending on in which order it is specified among the options.
In the example below: When color is specified first, as in the ...
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Colouring aligned math text with macros
I would like to have coloured text-generating macros that i can use inside an align* environment. However, the two seem conflicting.
Here's a MWE describing the issue.
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Is it possible to outline questions like this, and what are some other options?
I am writing some math homework in LaTex and I would like to format somehow like this:
10.2) Question Statement
My Answer
Meaning, I would like the question statement stand out, either in a ...
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How to change only the color of numbers (and not units) with numprint?
This question is related to this one: Colour only the text in a tabularx environment
I want to write as a succession of equality in blue (only the numbers) so that each line of the table has a ...
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Colour only the text in a tabularx environment
Edit: This question is related to this one: How to change only the color of numbers (and not units) with numprint?
I tried the solution given here, but it enlarges the line spacing of the table as ...
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How to draw colored text, multiline, monospaced
Wondering how to draw this using different colors (such as each letter a different color) so that it appears in the document like this:
/ \ / ___| / ___|_ _|_ _|
/ _ \ \___ \| | | | | |
/ ...
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Problems with textcolor in tcolorboxes with page breaks
When I use colored text (textcolor) in a - breakable - tcolorbox the color is restored to black after a page break. What must be changed to have, say, blue text within the whole tcolorbox?
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“Use of \@startpbox doesn't match its definition.” Error on a Table [duplicate]
I am getting the following error during compilation "Use of @startpbox doesn't match its definition." for all my tables in tabular and tabularx environment.
The relevant portions of my document ...
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How to change the color of a section in ACM template?
I am trying to change the color of the name of a section in ACM template.
\section{\color{red} My Section}
I have found this solution but it did not work.
It gives the error of Undefined color RED
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Color text across environments [duplicate]
I would like to color text with \textcolor{red}{b} across environment.
Interlock color definition outside environment such as the below example does not work.
\textcolor{red}{
\begin{itemize}
\item ...
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frametitle with the new colors
I want to use madrid theme and I want to achieve the horizontal shading effect in the frametitle with the colors like the following picture
I try as follows by using the following two answers (a1, a2)...
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Tabu very recently stopped working with color/xcolor or with fancyvrb
Below is a MWE with a tabu table that compiled perfectly fine up until I updated packages today (Dec. 16, 2018) with TeX Live Utility.
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{...
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Test if Current Color is Black
The MWE below does exactly what I want via the \TypsetInBlueOnlyIfCurrentColorIsBlack macro:
\TypsetInBlueOnlyIfCurrentColorIsBlack is intended to change the color of its parameter to blue, only if ...
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ConTeXt: xtables zebra stripe
Background
Set up zebra striping using extreme tables. The ConTeXt tables are generated by converting an ASCII Markdown table via pandoc.
Minimum Example
\starttext
\startplacetable[]
\...
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Error caused by tabular environment suddenly started happening on a previously working file
I'm working on a pretty big document with a lot of \usepackage and custom commands. I'm using texlive 2018 on both my laptop with Linux Mint 17 and my desktop with Windows 10.
After updating texlive ...
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Problem with xcolor package
With the folowing file
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
%\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
\newcolumntype{N}{p{1.5cm}}
\begin{tabular}[c]{cN}
One & Two
\end{tabular}
\...
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Why white transparent color becomes grey?
I'm trying to make a figure which use transparency in tikz. The figure consists in two overlapping rectangles. One which fading to the right and the other to the left. The rectangle fading to the ...
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Option clash for package xcolor - undetermined problem
I have a problem with LaTeX packages. My problem seems to be with xcolor, and very close from this question, but the their solution do not work for me.
Unfortuntly, even if I put \usepackage[table,...
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Color inline code
I'm able to compile the following in Overleaf for the desired inline code-coloring effect:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{minted}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{codeblue}{rgb}{0,0.3,0.6}
\...
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Color problem with booklet package
I have a document. Without the booklet package, all is well.
When I load the booklet package, I get a glitch with the color
of certain text.
I produce some 70+ pages of 2 column text; contact list ...
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Transparent package alters tikz color opacity [duplicate]
When using the package transparent for some elements in text, it has a huge side effect: it alters the colors also in any TikZ image of the document.
This is the result without using the package:
\...
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Is it possible to change the color of the section heading and the number associated with it for just one section?
Currently, I have
\section{{\color{red} Conclusion}} \label{sec:conclusion}
This results in the word "Conclusion" to turn into red. But, the section number VI still appears in black. Is there a way ...
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\everymath and \underline color
I use \everymath to change the color of all maths (blue). However, beyond my expectation, this color happens to automatically apply for any underlined texts. Please kindly instruct me how to solve ...
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TikZ arrow tip is drawn with two colors
This is my code (ConTeXt, but I think that's not relevant here):
\usemodule[tikz]
\usetikzlibrary{positioning,fit,shapes,calc,arrows.meta,decorations.markings}
\tikzset{
arr/.style = { -{Stealth[...
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How to draw A ⊕ B ⊕ C as a Venn diagram?
You see my code and please answer my two questions:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,mathptmx}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-node}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}
\begin{document}...
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A wheel-like figure
I am trying to draw a wheel-like figure like this. I had used xfig.
I wonder whether I can also use LaTex tikz or other ways to get similar figure with the additional criterion
the area ...
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Background color of the title of a theorem, including its numbering
I am starting with a classical theorem environment from amsthm, it has the numbering I want. What I would like is to color the background of the name of the theorem. I have tried to do a color box in ...
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Coloring chapter and section and relative numbers [closed]
I tried to color che chapter and the section after their restiling.
I re-used two code and mixes them, but i had no positive results.
How solve this problem??
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,oneside]{...
