Questions tagged [colorbox]
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force line breaks in long character strings that contain highlighted text (seqsplit does not work here)
I have a long string of characters containing highlighted text by way of a colorbox. Inside it, \seqsplit is ignored. How can I force line breaks within the highlighted text?
Please note: \seqsplit ...
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Effecting a Shift of an FCOLORBOX within a Simple Lettrine
Consider the code
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{type1cm,lettrine}
\usepackage{xcolor}
%\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[tracking=true]{microtype}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\large
\...
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Adding a Colored Frame to a Do-It-Yourself Lettrine
This question is an extension of the one posed a while back in Adding a Letter to an Image in a Do-It-Yourself Lettrine
Consider the MWE
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lettrine}
\usepackage{xcolor}
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How can I patch `minted` to use `soul`s higlighting
I'd like to highlight code with a gray background like StackExchange does.
I know that I can set bgcolor in minted to put a solid background color on inline code.
However, this makes minted use ...
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How do i align colorbox with my text?
I am trying to insert colored boxes into my caption like below.
But my code below does not align the colored boxes with the text. How can I automatically align them with the text?
\documentclass{...
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Width of parbox inside colorbox
I want to insert a colorbox into a margin paragraph. parbox is used to keep the line breaks.
What value should I pass to \parbox's width so it doesn't get too wide as it does now?
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Centering an Initfamily Letter within a Colorbox and Sizing It for Use as a Two-Color Lettrine
Consider the code
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lettrine}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{scalefnt}
\usepackage[tracking=true]{microtype}
\input GoudyIn.fd
\newcommand*\...
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\newenvironment with defined colorbox
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find an answer, that fits my situation. I want to create a \newenvironment that produces a box, with a predefined color, and can have text inside. I ...
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Color box with yellow border
How can I modify to produce something like this?
I tried this code for colorbox but I can't see the yellow border
\newtcolorbox{colorbox}[1]{
breakable,
title=#1,
colback=white,
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Highlight source code keeping spacing intact
I try to highlight some lines of a code using colorbox in listings.
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{listings}
\begin{document}
\lstdefinestyle{data}{
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Verbatim/Lstlisting environment with background color highlighting
Use case: Currently we are reporting security findings using MS Word. These findings contain large parts of code snippets, command outputs and HTML code. We highlight relevant parts of this code so ...
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Some problem about the frame
I have made a box and I have a few problems. The first one is that, no matter how I change the toptitle or the bottomtitle, the spacing between the box and the article below is still unchanged.
How ...
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colorbox for a multi paragraph text
I adapt the solution in Set the width of a fcolorbox for a multiparagraph statement - there should be a uniform colour box encompassing multiple paragraphs:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\...
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Highlighting code snippet in lstlisting with colorbox changes the character and breaks the border
I am using Texstudio with texlive 2021. To highlight some lines of the following code snippet in lstlisting, I am using colorbox
\begin{lstlisting}[style=listing1]
|\colorbox{yellow}{...
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How to colour the background of a Theorem
How to colour the background like the following picture in LaTeX
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Theorem Styles with \ref and \colorbox [duplicate]
Yesterday I publicated a question, link: Theorem styles with emph.
But I still have other problems.
My code:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[...
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\fcolorbox in \begin{equation}
Good evening
I do not understand why Overleaf tells me that there is an error in this code
\begin{equation}\fcolorbox{black}{gray!30}{$\color{blue}{\displaystyle{\lim_{n\longrightarrow+\infty}\dfrac{n!...
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Color box with multiple lines and underlined text (within a paragraph)
In a paragraph, I want to highlight some part of the text (not the whole paragraph!) with a colorbox and also underline the text within that colorbox. This would be the result that I am looking for:
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Transparent colorbox with no text
This is related to Vary transparency of colorbox in a sentence
I would like to have a transparent colorbox for some overlay and this attempt is not working
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{soul,...
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Color background of table using colorbox
I want to set a lightgray color behind my table, using colorbox. Following this solution, I created the following MWE:
\begin{table}[H]
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
\centering
\begingroup\...
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Consecutive colorbox items does not line break in a table
I want to create a table with the long text content. Each word in the text is color boxed. But when this is done, the text does not wrap and there is no line break. Below is sample code:
\begin{table}[...
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one-column abstract is moved to next page when I use tcolorbox
I'm making a two-column document, but I need a one-column abstract with background-color for that I am using tcolorbox, if the content of the abstract is too long then the abstract content is moved to ...
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ntheorem and psframebox - bad box splitting
I am having some troubles with the typesetting of boxed theorems. I use ntheorem to typeset theorems in a colored frame, defining them via the \newshadedtheorem macro. The problem is that sometimes, ...
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Extending hline within a colorbox environment
I am trying to extend the hlines of the following table such that they span the entire width of the colorbox, but can't seem to figure out how. The current Latex code looks like this:
\documentclass[...
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Left and right colour box equation
I'm looking for solution to get colour boxes for equations below (with optional box in one of them) - one for the right and one for the left - as on the picture below.
Is it possible to get dialog ...
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How can I fill green the chapter in table of contents
How can I fill green the chapter in table of contents like this:
I have read many place (for example Using colors in LaTeX document, Generate a table of contents,...) but I could not found any ideas ...
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Exact size of makebox
I am trying to create a page layout, where the page number is shown on the right margin in a white textcolor on a black background.
\documentclass[parskip=full]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[left=2cm,right=...
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Overful hbox when using \colorbox in math mode
I got pretty long math formulas in my LaTeX document.
Now I want to color the background of those formulas. However, if I use \colorbox{}{} the linebreak doesn't work anymore.
Note: the gray bar at ...
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How to colorbox an entire section?
I want the last section of a chapter to have a colour background. I want to create a Summary section that needs to be differentiated.
I already tried using colorbox (xcolor package):
\colorbox{...
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Highlighting only the bottom half of a word
I would like to define a command for highlighting in the following style.
Some people do this on paper and I would like to mimic that on a particular document. How could I achieve this? I thought of ...
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How can I increase the font and sidebar size?
I would like to add increase the size of the sidebar to 2.5cm and increase the size of the text proportionally.
At the bottom I would like to create a box taking the entire length of the frame. The ...
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How to add borders with shaded environment (from the framed package)
I defined a shaded environement using the framed package (\usepackage{framed}) and I would like to add borders to the shaded area, how could I do it?
For instance, how could I add borders in this ...
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How to make a colour box in these 3 different ways
I want to put a text in a colour box in these 3 different ways. See the pictures below
1. Pic 1:-
2. Pic 2:-
3. Pic 3:-
Please tell me.
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alternate background color for biblatex [duplicate]
I am trying to get alternate background color for bibliography, with AtBeginBebliography, as shown(Please note, \IF_COUNTER_IS_ODD does not have any meaning, it is just to show, I want orange \...
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How to put text inside chronoperiode timeline-bar?
How can I put text inside the bar instead of over the bar?
Thank you in advance for your help!
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{chronosys}
\begin{document}
%--------...
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How do I make a colored box around chemfig
How do I expand the box over both molecules (centered and middle space adjustable), but the borders within the enumerate environment? The image is what I want to make. I attempted to do the following, ...
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How to remove the section numbers while colouring the whole section line using \colorbox?
I have used the following piece of code for colouring the text written in the section. The only problem which I am facing is that after adding this code my section is getting numbered which I don't ...
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color box that ignore mutated vowel
Can someone help defining a new command?
I have the following to create a colored box around the content that is written in all caps:
\documentclass[]{scrreprt}
\newcommand{\sect}[1]{
\colorbox{...
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Splitting vbox with Verbatim inside
I have replaced the Verbatim environment to include a vbox and colorbox so that I can apply a background color to it. The problem is that now it does not split at the end of the page.
This is a ...
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How print the latex commands in document with line numbers in a coloured box [duplicate]
I want to write the latex commands in the document ina coloured box with line numbers. Much like in here the latex commands display in a gray coloured box. I want that with line numbers. And also i ...
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\colorbox shape – highlight formula
I've seen somewhere such a shape of a highlight.
I am trying to repeat this using xcolor package, but I managed to get only rectangular shape of the box.
\colorbox{red!10}{$\displaystyle\int xe^{-x}...
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Undesired indentation when using Verbatim inside colorbox inside itemize
I want to place a Verbatim from fvextra package, with a background color, inside a itemize.
To accomplish that, I placed the Verbatim inside a colorbox.
Unfortunately, there were two problems:
there ...
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Using titlesec, Space between titlerule and colorbox
I am using the package titlesec to format the titles in my document. As I don't want to have the titles in a closed box (we could use "frame" as format parameter of \titleformat for that), I use a \...
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Several questions about the question "Attractive Boxed Equations"
I was reading the highest rated answer of the question "Attractive Boxed Equations",
I don't understand the main code of the answer.
There are two problems for me:
what do the commands with ...
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Only frame with rounded corners and shadow using attach boxed in `tcolorbox`
I'm trying to get a box style (more or less) like this:
But with the rounded edges and shadow (that image is my best effort with Gimp ...)
I've been trying to adapt an example of the tcolorbox ...
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Using tikzcd package inside a colorbox
I am trying to use the tikzcd package to make a commutative diagram inside a colorbox. I am having trouble combining these two environments, although the code works outside of the colorbox environment....
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Embossed color box
I need to have
embossed colorbox in latex with text within
(like the
\fcolorbox{border-color}{fill-color}{text}
) the same as the folowing picture?
Is it posible?
Thanks.
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Listing not fully filling background with escape inside
I made this minimal example to showcase the problem I am having:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{listings}
\definecolor{background}{HTML}{EEEEEE}
\definecolor{xmlOrange}{HTML}{...
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Text colour in empheq for multiline AMS environments
I use the empheq package along with the xcolor package to display equations in coloured boxes. I also wish to change the text colour of the equation. In single-line environments, such as equation, ...
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Text goes outside of colored box - how to fix?
My coloured box should look like this:
but here's how it looks:
So the fonts are different and the colours are also a bit different.
It is described by this LaTeX code.
I would appreciate some ...
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