Highlighting and striking through text in latex

Question

I have used

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{soul}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\begin{document}
\hl{\mbox{\sout{This is my text which I want to highlight and strike through. The text does not go to the next line, instead it goes beyond the page.}}}
\end{document}

But the sentence is not broken down in output pages. It goes beyond the page. How to fix it?

Why you use \mbox? It prevent to break text in it. Try to remove it. If you like to get an answer, please provide MWE, which reproduce your problem. — Zarko, May 12 '23 at 03:35
@Zarko If you use without mbox, it says reconstruction failed. — YatShan, May 12 '23 at 03:39
Please post the MWE as in executable format, i.e., from \documentclass to \end{document} — MadyYuvi, May 12 '23 at 03:40
This is not sufficient. Please provide complete document )beginning with ˙\documentclassand ending with\end{document}, which can test at it is — Zarko, May 12 '23 at 03:53
Read package documentation, section **, paragraph 22. What you doing is not supported. — Zarko, May 12 '23 at 04:02
So, how do you highlight and strikethrough same text (i.e. a paragraph) in latex? — YatShan, May 12 '23 at 04:06
Just wondering, why you do that. If you want to comment, redact etc. like with Acrobat there are packages supporting this in Latex. — MS-SPO, May 12 '23 at 04:21
@MS-SPO May I know what packages you are referring to? Thank you — YatShan, May 12 '23 at 04:22
@YatShan, Because you (still) didn‘t mention your reason, I suggest entering one of these search terms into your search engine: ctan comment, ctan redact, and similar. Check out package manuals. Also have a look at the classifications ctan.org provides, leading you to similar or better packages. — MS-SPO, May 12 '23 at 04:57
Does this answer your question? Mixing underline and strike-out — user202729, May 12 '23 at 05:44
What's wrong with that? soulpos package also uses TikZ for positioning — user202729, May 12 '23 at 05:48
In retrospect that answer is not specifically for this question, but one of the macros defined in that specific answer does work here. — user202729, May 12 '23 at 05:59

user202729 · Answer 1 · 2023-05-12T06:58:17.117

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Easiest would be to use soulpos:

%! TEX program = pdflatex
\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage{soul}
\usepackage{soulpos}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\ulposdef{\hlst}{%
    \rlap{\textcolor{yellow}{\rule[-.75ex]{\ulwidth}{2.5ex}}}%
    \rule[.45ex]{\ulwidth}{.1ex}%
}
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{gobble}
\textbf{New hlst macro:}
\hlst{This is my text which I want to highlight and strike through. The text goes to the next line instead of going beyond the page.}
\textbf{hl:}
\hl{This is my text which I want to highlight and strike through. The text goes to the next line instead of going beyond the page.}
\textbf{st:}
\st{This is my text which I want to highlight and strike through. The text goes to the next line instead of going beyond the page.}
\end{document}

Output:

Another alternative is to use lua-ul see Can't underline highlighted text (soul) for an example.

edited May 12 '23 at 06:58

answered May 12 '23 at 04:55

user202729

7,143

This solution works. But for some reason, in the main latex project it is not either highlighting or striking through the text. – YatShan May 12 '23 at 05:32
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@YatShan Without a minimal working example I can't tell anything. (remember that you need to compile twice, soulpos requires 2 passes.) – user202729 May 12 '23 at 05:37
Even after two compilations, it didn't work. – YatShan May 12 '23 at 06:04
@YatShan Need minimal non-working example then. – user202729 May 12 '23 at 06:04

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