Colorbox with changes package

Question

I am working with the changes package. Modifying the color of the changed passages works well with \colorlet command. Is it possible to create colorboxes (with yellow color) only around the changes (without the \colorbox command)?

Thanks for your answer... Philipp

Welcome to TeX.SX! Can you show some minimal code? – egreg Mar 05 '15 at 09:47 — egreg, Mar 05 '15 at 09:47

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

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You can control the appearance of added and deleted text through the commands \setaddedmarkup and \setdeletedmarkup, respectively.

So you can define, for example:

\setaddedmarkup{\colorbox{yellow}{#1}}
\setdeletedmarkup{\colorbox{red}{\sout{#1}}}

With the following code

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{changes}

\definechangesauthor[name={Philipp}]{P}

\setaddedmarkup{\colorbox{yellow}{#1}}
\setdeletedmarkup{\colorbox{red}{\sout{#1}}}

\begin{document}
This is \added[id=P]{new} text.

This is \deleted[id=P]{bad} text.

This is \replaced[id=P]{nice}{bad} text.
\end{document}

you get

enter image description here

This doesn't obviously support line breaks.

If you don't need particular formatting apart from coloring, you can load the soul package (once loaded by changes), and define, for example:

\setaddedmarkup{\sethlcolor{yellow}\hl{#1}}
\setdeletedmarkup{\sethlcolor{red}\hl{#1}}

MWE

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{changes}
\usepackage{soul}

\definechangesauthor[name={Philipp}]{P}

\setaddedmarkup{\sethlcolor{yellow}\hl{#1}}
\setdeletedmarkup{\sethlcolor{red}\hl{#1}}

\begin{document}
This is \added[id=P]{new} text.

This is \deleted[id=P]{bad} text.

This is \replaced[id=P]{nice}{bad} text.
\end{document}

Output:

enter image description here

Otherwise, have a look at this thread for more highlighting possibilities: Cool Text Highlighting in LaTeX

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

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answered Mar 05 '15 at 10:26

karlkoeller

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Line breaks would be quite annoying like this ;) – percusse Mar 05 '15 at 10:28
@percusse Of course it doesn't support line breaks.... :-) – karlkoeller Mar 05 '15 at 10:31
It needs more soul http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5959/cool-text-highlighting-in-latex ;) – percusse Mar 05 '15 at 10:35
Thanks a lot. Is it also possible to add markups for equations (created with align)? – Philipp Mar 07 '15 at 11:24
@Philipp It is possible, but not with the changes package. See this answer of mine: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/156032/27635 for an example – karlkoeller Mar 07 '15 at 11:49
Thanks Karl. Is there any possibility that an equation can be boxed only in the draft mode although package CHANGES does not work? – Philipp Mar 07 '15 at 13:16
@Philipp I don't know, I'm sorry. Please ask a new question for this. – karlkoeller Mar 07 '15 at 13:22

Colorbox with changes package

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