35
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Create fancy environment in Tikz
The tcolorbox package is very flexible and you can do almost anything in it.
This solution auto numbers the boxes, resetting numbers every section heading. There's no bottom rule (as in your question),...
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Inspired beautiful box from Indesign
Here's one way to do it with Tikz. I only tested it with regular text, but being a node, it should work with other graphic elements as well.
Edit: I have applied a fix for your equation (and possible ...
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20
votes
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inline tcolorbox with rotated title
Copied from tcolorbox's documentation:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[skins]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\newtcbox{\mylib}{enhanced,nobeforeafter,tcbox raise base,...
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tcolorbox without background color (transparent)
Thanks to flav.
Transparent background in tcolorbox is only possible with the skin key standard jigsaw. Otherwise there is no effect of the key opacityback=0
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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18
votes
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How to make boxes like these?
It's been a while since I've used pstricks, so I'll leave that for someone else to address. Also, I'm not fluent in using tcolorbox. So, that too I'll leave for someone else. But, I will show how ...
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Creating a multi-line colored box in LaTeX
This is another tcolorbox solution which uses the skins and xparse libraries. xparse is used to define a new command
\namebox{<first names>}{<last name>}{<content of right hand box e....
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Create a box using the tcolorbox package or any other? (image)
The following might give you an idea on how to start:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\newtcolorbox{mybox}{
enhanced,
boxrule=0pt,frame hidden,
borderline west={4pt}{0pt}{green!...
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Color box with rounded corners
tcolorbox, with use in math environment(s):
\documentclass[dvipsnames]{article}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\colorlet{LightLavender}{Lavender!40!}
\tcbset{on line,
boxsep=4pt, left=0pt,right=...
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votes
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How to define a boxed environment using tcolorbox like the following picture?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[many]{tcolorbox}
\newtcolorbox{note}[1][\linewidth]{
width = #1,
sharp corners,
boxed title style={boxrule=0pt,colframe=white},
attach boxed title to top left={...
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16
votes
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Writing exercices in a certain fashion
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage{nccmath}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\tcbuselibrary{skins}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing, positioning}
\newcounter{mycounter}
\...
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Box design with tikz
You can use the tcolorbox package. Here a short example to get you started how to draw these "handdrawn" lines:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{emerald}
\...
15
votes
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How to create theorem boxes
This can be quite easily achieved with tcolorbox:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{cleveref}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\newtcbtheorem{Theorem}{Theorem}{
enhanced,
sharp ...
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Multi-page tcolorbox with complete box on each page
Update (09/Feb/2023)
This is an alternative to my original answer (below) which is easier to apply. At least we don't need to know TiKZ commands to solve the problem.
The enhanced skin applied to ...
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15
votes
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Paragraph breaks inside tcolorbox
You can set the parbox key to false:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\setlength{\parskip}{1em}
\begin{document}
\begin{tcolorbox}[parbox=false]
\lipsum[1]
\...
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Inspired beautiful box from Indesign
Following code shows how to define these boxes with tcolorbox instead of TiKZ (like in Alenanno's solution). This way boxes can break between pages.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{...
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tcolorbox package returns "missing \pdf@unescapehex" warning
Using listingsutf8 with XeLaTeX is usually not a good idea.
The most option loads the tcolorbox libraries loaded by many together with
listingsutf8 external magazine vignette poster
and you ...
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votes
tabularx inside tcolorbox not centered properly
Since line breaking inside the cells is neither expected nor desirable, and since the natural widths of the four columns are quite different, using a tabularx environment seems wrong. I suggest you ...
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votes
tcolorbox without background color (transparent)
You must use enhanced :
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pagecolor}
\pagecolor{yellow}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\tcbuselibrary{skins}
\begin{document}
\begin{tcolorbox}[enhanced,
title=Title,
...
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votes
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tcolorbox: using self defined colors
The value of the colback option is the name of the color, not the \color command.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\definecolor{my-blue}{cmyk}{0.80, 0.13, 0.14, 0.04, 1.00}
\begin{...
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votes
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theorems and definitions boxes (numbering should be chapter-wise)
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{cleveref}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\newtcbtheorem[number within=chapter]{Theorem}{}{
enhanced,
sharp corners,
attach ...
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13
votes
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How does LaTeX specify colors?
A general answer to your question would be to study the xcolor documentation. The package allows for all sorts of colour mixing.
Specific to your inquiry, read the introductory section 1.1 Purpose of ...
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