Questions tagged [text-decorations]
Applying effects to text such as underlining, striking through, highlighting, shadows or other geometric transformations
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how to shift text right in a tabular data
This is code in a simple document I am writing abbreviations.
\begin{tabular}{l l}
\textbf{VM} & Virtual Machine\\
\textbf{AWS} & Amazon Web Services\\
\textbf{GCP} ...
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How do cross out text in math mode?
Since \sout does not work in math mode, what can I use instead? I don't want the diagonal strikeout like with cancelf
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How to change the size of all types of text?
I am fairly new to latex, but when I started writing my document, I noticed that the text was very small (from the normal text I used in paragraphs to the text I used to name different sections).
My ...
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How to write this kind of colour text in LaTeX?
I need to add following text to my latex document. currently I created some image and add it to document.
I need to know some simple way to adding it as text , to my latest project.
An additional ...
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How to spread out the letters a little bit when using text decoration?
The default text-decoration letters look a little bit squished together:
I can manually make them the way I want by changing gather to
g{\kern1pt a}{\kern1pt t}{\kern1pt h}{\kern1pt e}{\kern1pt r}{}
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Using a path twice (draw and then decorate)
Is there any way to reuse a path for both drawing and text decorating?
I want to avoid repeating the (6.8cm,-1.7) -- (9.5cm,-1.7) arc (-90:0:1.5) -- (11cm,1.5) below.
\documentclass[border=1mm]{...
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How to add a strikethough or slash over the “Cal” of “CalParam”
There are two types of parameters: calibrated and non-calibrated. I use "CalParam" as a shorthand to denote a calibrated parameter. To denote a non-calibrated paramter, I want to add a strikethrough ...
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Text along the edges of a page
So I have been wondering how to run text along the perimeter of a page so that it wraps around and rotates accordingly: text runs normally along the upper age, then `turns right' at the upper right ...
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How to write a vertically centered asterisk in LaTex in a normal text?
In the exercises of the C++PL (4th Edition) I see that it is possible to write, for example, (*1).
How can I achieve this in LaTeX? When I try the same sequence of characters as I just did before (in ...
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How to make textured text in LaTeX [duplicate]
In CSS you can make textured text like this:
How can you do this same effect easily in LaTeX (XeLaTeX)?
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{...
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How to write this text? [duplicate]
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I need to write the word as vertically. I use overleaf.
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Decrease spacing between double bars [duplicate]
I'd like double bars over my X, that I can get using these overline symbols
\[\overline{\overline{X}}\]
I also tried the bar symbols, but they're misaligned over the X.
\[\bar{\bar{X}}\]
What I ...
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ConTeXt: Squiggly Underbar
Is it possible to create a squiggly underline? Like this, but wavy:
\setupwhitespace[big]
\starttext
\underbar{\samplefile{knuth}}
\stoptext
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Drop cap theorem style
I would like a theoremstyle-like definition which induces the first letter of the theorem-head to be drop-capped.
I do not intend to use counters, at all, with this style. I fully intend to use other ...
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Implementing subscript text within regular text (math equation) [duplicate]
How do you add subscript text within a text string e.g. I would like my the output to have the max as subscript
\text{AC generator emf_max}
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Center align text decoration along path
I am trying to duplicate the node highlighted in green but along a curved path. It mostly works, but when I attempt to apply the text align=center effect to the decoration, I get
Dimension too ...
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How can I write upside down real numbers symbol ($\mathbb{R}$)?
How can I write $\mathbb{R}$ upside down? And, in general, \mathbb letters...
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How do I use mark indices with position in tikz?
I am trying to decorate a curve with some arrowheads, there is a way which you could specify the percentage position with steps
% !TEX TS-program = xelatex
\documentclass[UTF8]{article}
\usepackage{...
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Text on one page is different color than other pages
I'm writing an article and as I was editing it I noticed that sometime within the last half hour the text on one of the pages had turned blue. I wasn't doing anything other than adding/removing text, ...
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How to make double overline with less vertical displacement
\overline{\overline{ABC}} produces a double bar over ABC, but it takes up too much vertical space.
How can I make the top bar closer to the bar below it?
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Decoration of problem sets
Did anyone have an experience with formatting the problem set for home assignments?
I'm looking for results like in attached picture:
I found the similar result for a "caption" here: https://...
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How to improve machine-readability of a CV created in LaTeX with moderncv?
Some background story. I recently send my CV to a free online evaluation. The reply showed that although the document looked visually appealing, it was bad for ATS (Applicant Tracking System). These ...
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\texttt does not break in two lines
I use \texttt to format some text. I need to break it into two lines if it exceeds the line width. I use \justify but it does not always work. The script below shows two examples one works well and ...
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How to enable hard text wrapping in WinShell Latex editor
I need to enforce hard text wrapping (i.e. new line after some number of words, say 100). I found that the warpping mode is enabled (Options-> Wrap Mode) but it is soft (insert new line for display ...
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How to preserve text wrapping from WinShell to GitHub [duplicate]
I am using WinShell as editor for my Latex text. I use GiHub to share my test with others. My problem is in my WinShell the text is wrapped correctly. But in GiHub, the text appears not the same. The ...
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Changing text in Console output
I am finding that I am writing more and more packages/commands for other people these days and have started writing some nice default utility commands to use. However, there is always the concern for ...
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SVG-image colour dependent on text colour, without external tools?
I have a decorative SVG-figure, and I want to change just one variable, to alter both text- and SVG-colour
Working in Sharelatex, using pdfLatex to compile
SVG to retain its scaling properties
MWE
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Special underline/Partial box
I'm not exactly sure what to call this, but I'd like to know how to replicate the text decoration shown under the $n$ in the image. It seems a hooked underline or similar to, a partial box, but only ...
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Text editor highlighting in a verbatim-like environment? [closed]
This might be a long shot, but I'm planning to include a roughly 300-line block of python code as an appendix to my undergraduate thesis, and I was wondering if there's a way to make it display with ...
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Disabling changes and todonotes packages: Text is still being coloured
The problem arose after the solution of : Colouring text doen't work in newcommand definition
I am trying to define a new \note command based on todonotes and changes packages but I'm having ...
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Colouring text doen't work in newcommand definition
I am trying to define a new \note command based on todonotes and changes packages but I'm having troubles with the optional selected text styling. I want it to be coloured based on the changes ID ...
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Tikz calendar formatting, anchoring text (was small caps, text allignment, and color alternation)
I have kludged a fix to the small caps and alternating color requirement for the day headings. My code now reflects those changes, and I describe them at the end of this question for those who may be ...
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How to make every line in a bubble like chat conversations?
I've had a plain chat conversation and need display them similarly to how they are designed in Messenger. Since this is a long conversation, I need a method to do it at once. I know this might be ...
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How can I create this ornament section?
or
I would like to create a pattern for each section to display a line in the line of the question number, and below the right aligned, score of the question.
How can I create this ornament in \...
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How can I highlight paragraphs by adding a symbol to the left of them?
I would like to add a triangle to highlight important paragraphs in my document. Especially, the triangle should not change the existing text flow.
Example before:
Paragraph one.
Paragraph two....
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Outline text characters
In order to improve readability of some texts, I'd like to put a kind of "eyeliner" around my letters (actually, that's how memes manage to get readable texts on any picture).
Here is an exemple of ...
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How to enclosure a text block into big square brackets?
everybody. I need to enclosure a text block into big square brackets. Something like this (I need to replicate it, more or less):
I've read that it could be possible with tikz but I don't know ...
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How to explicitly set “justify” for paragraph?
Is there a way to explicitly set "justify" for paragraph in latex or xelatex?
(some tricks or packages??)
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How can I automatically make a specific phrase or string of characters (e.g. QQQ) turn red in text?
I often add specific nonsense blurbs such as QQQ to mark regions that need to be checked/edited by other people. Is there a way to automatically give these a different colour so they stand out more in ...
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How do I get a custom enumeration?
I want to get the following "1.", "2." and "3." The color is "RoyalBlue" from the package xcolor, option [dvipnames], and I also want a custom font for it (other than Computer Modern). Also some more ...
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How can we write text along the circular path in latex? [duplicate]
Can somebody explain me the basics how can we do that?
Thanking you in advance
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Add square box around each words
My system OS is MacOS
I use Xelatex
The MWE is
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec,xunicode}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\XeTeXlinebreaklocale "zh"
\XeTeXlinebreakskip = ...
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How to write a word within some text using Latex
is it possible in latex to write a word within some text either by introducing a white figure and then wrapping the text around it or some other maybe more clever way. I want something like this, ...
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Can I make a piece of text ignore formatting changes applied by its outer context?
I have a command which formats a piece of text a certain way. Simple example:
\begincommand{\myformat}[1]{\texttt{#1}}
I want to be able to place this command inside other text formatting commmands ...
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LetterSequence formatting when starting a paragraph
Ok so I know about the \lettrine package and using it to adjust the first letter of a paragraph. What I am interested in is adjusting the first three or four letters of the first word of a paragraph. ...
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Underlining in LyX Line that Contains Displaystyle
Is it possible to underline a line in LyX that contains both LyX regular text, and things written in math-mode, such that the whole line would have underline positioned in the default distance, but ...
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How to customise \title to include a shadow effect on a paper?
The shadowtext package allows you to use the command \shadowtext to create a shadow behind the letters like so
\documentclass{paper}
\usepackage{shadowtext}
\title{\shadowtext{Title}}
\begin{...
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Surround decoration with pgfornament
I apologize in advance if these questions have been asked and answered before.
I am trying to decorate the word exercice in the \newenvironment{exo} with tikz package for example like this. I use ...
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add text along arc
I created the following image with MS Visio:
MWE
Now I want to create it with Tikz.
Therefor I already got an MWE to this:
\documentclass[margin=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\definecolor{...
