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LaTeX Cookbook

You're reading from   LaTeX Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395148
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Kottwitz Stefan Kottwitz
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Variety of Document Types FREE CHAPTER 2. Tuning the Text 3. Adjusting Fonts 4. Working with Images 5. Beautiful Designs 6. Designing Tables 7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies 8. Getting the Most out of the PDF 9. Creating Graphics 10. Advanced Mathematics 11. Science and Technology 12. Getting Support on the Internet Index

Putting text into a colorful box

You often see important content put into a colored box, especially on posters and slides, although it's used in other documents, too. In this recipe, we will put a little text and also whole paragraphs into a colored box. They can also have titles.

How to do it...

We will use the tcolorbox package. It is based on pgf, so you need to have that package installed as well.

We will create a box with the defaults, a titled box with split content, and boxes placed inline that fit the width of the content. Proceed as follows:

  1. Create a small document based on any document class. The article package is a simple choice. Load the blindtext package to generate dummy text. This time, we will use the pangram option to create short pangrams as dummy text. The blindtext package requires the babel package, so we load it before. We also set English as the language. Furthermore, load the tcolorbox package. Our base document looks like this:
    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage...
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