crossing out using different colour

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How to cross out a sentence using a horizontal line in a colour different from the text?

I found this useful question about how to cross out a sentence, but I cannot figure out how to use colour with this solution. The cancel package allows that, as described here, but would not do a horizontal line.

karlkoeller · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-29T08:28:02.057

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Too long for a comment.

The second answer in that thread is a working example.

If you want to change the color when using the soul package you can use the command \setstcolor:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{soul,xcolor}

\begin{document}

\setstcolor{red}

\st{Some overstruck text}

\end{document}

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The ulem package does not support coloring directly, but looking at its manual, you can find that it is possible to define a new command like

\newcommand\redsout{\bgroup\markoverwith{\textcolor{red}{\rule[0.5ex]{2pt}{0.4pt}}}\ULon}

so that

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\begin{document}

\newcommand\redsout{\bgroup\markoverwith{\textcolor{red}{\rule[0.5ex]{2pt}{0.4pt}}}\ULon}

\redsout{Some overstruck text}

\end{document}

produces the same result as the above one.

edited Aug 29 '13 at 08:28

answered Aug 29 '13 at 08:17

karlkoeller

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With the ulem-version, I actually get the line behind the text. – Michael Greinecker Oct 09 '20 at 11:43
@MichaelGreinecker Just like the soul version shown above. Maybe the example should call it "understruck" text. – Matt Jan 28 '22 at 16:38
@MichaelGreinecker It works fine for me. – Jairo Bochi Jul 11 '23 at 14:08

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