Jul 4, 2018 · I am trying to generate this in my document: The goal is to have multiple lines that are aligned, which is why I used \\texttt{}. But using \\colorbox{color}{text} from the xcolor package, this is wh...

Oct 21, 2020 · The command \colorbox simply draw a background rectangle with the width and height of what is inside plus a margin around that is equal to \fboxsep. You can control the size and shape of the box setting \fboxsep and/or including anything taking some vertical and/or horizontal size, as text, another boxes, minipages, tabulars, etc.

Sep 15, 2020 · 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.

Jun 1, 2016 · I used to define colorbox as new command \hll to wrap citations and references and used soul's \hl for highlighting normal text. Now I use this: \newcommand{\hll}[1]{\colorbox{yellow}{\parbox{\columnwidth}{#1}}} \parbox is added to split colorbox into multiple lines and this works irrespective if there are citation and references in …

Aug 31, 2016 · \fcolorbox falls back to \colorbox, which can't have rounded corners by itself (it would be possible to redefine it and use some \put statements to change the joints of the rules, however) The width of the frame is defined by \fboxrule , so changing the width will provide other boxes in this sense.

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The problem here is that \colorbox reverts it's argument back to text mode. And, since you're using math-related macros (like \left, \right, \frac and \ell) in text mode, TeX complains about a missing $. So you need to explicitly state that you're in math mode using: \newcommand{\highlight}[1]{\colorbox{yellow}{$\displaystyle #1$}}

The problem is not with a bad interaction; as David mentioned in his comment, \colorbox is unbreakable; you can use a \parbox (of the appropriate width) inside the \colorbox to allow wrapping or you can use the mdframed package to define an environment with the colored background and the top rule; the following example shows both approaches:

Oct 29, 2024 · I am trying to create codeblocks with colored backgrounds in regular text. However, long strings do not break across lines and extend past the margins. Is it possible to add an additional option to...