\hl does not cover the entire text

Question

I am attempting to use soul and xcolor to highlight some of my text but as you can see in the image it does not seem to cover the whole text.

The line is Service agents must be able to \hl{\mbox{create}} an account

If I try to remove mbox so it becomes Service agents must be able to \hl{create} an account it will look like this:

How can I fix this so it covers the entire text?

Document:

  
%Preamble
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{soul}
% Main.tex
\documentclass[a4paper,twoside,11pt]{report}
\input{Setup/Statics.tex}
\input{Setup/Preamble.tex}
\input{Setup/Settings.tex}
\begin{document}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\input{Chapters/06_Design}
\clearpage 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\printbibliography[title={Bibliography}]
\clearpage 
\appendix
\input{Backmatter/Appendix.tex}
\cleartoleftpage
\end{document}
% Inside Design document
\begin{longtable}{|p{1cm}|p{4cm}|p{10cm}|}
    \caption{Noun and verb analysis} 
\hline
ID            & Requirement                          & Description                                                                                                                                                                                            \ \hline
\textbf{FR1}  & Create account                       & Service agents must be able to \hl{create} an account                                                                                                                               \ \hline
\end{longtable}
%Settings.tex
% Colours! 
\newcommand{\targetcolourmodel}{cmyk} 
\selectcolormodel{\targetcolourmodel}
\definecolor{dtured}    {rgb/cmyk}{0.6,0,0 / 0,0.91,0.72,0.23}
\definecolor{blue}      {rgb/cmyk}{0.1843,0.2431,0.9176 / 0.88,0.76,0,0}
\definecolor{brightgreen}{rgb/cmyk}{0.1216,0.8157,0.5098 / 0.69,0,0.66,0}
\definecolor{navyblue}  {rgb/cmyk}{0.0118,0.0588,0.3098 / 1,0.9,0,0.6}
\definecolor{yellow}    {rgb/cmyk}{0.9647,0.8157,0.3019 / 0.05,0.17,0.82,0}
\definecolor{orange}    {rgb/cmyk}{0.9882,0.4627,0.2039 / 0,0.65,0.86,0}
\definecolor{pink}      {rgb/cmyk}{0.9686,0.7333,0.6941 / 0,0.35,0.26,0}
\definecolor{grey}      {rgb/cmyk}{0.8549,0.8549,0.8549 / 0,0,0,0.2}
\definecolor{red}       {rgb/cmyk}{0.9098,0.2471,0.2824 / 0,0.86,0.65,0}
\definecolor{green}     {rgb/cmyk}{0,0.5333,0.2078 / 0.89,0.05,1,0.17}
\definecolor{purple}    {rgb/cmyk}{0.4745,0.1373,0.5569 / 0.67,0.96,0,0}
\definecolor{verde}     {rgb}{0.25,0.5,0.35}
\definecolor{jpurple}   {rgb}{0.5,0,0.35}
\definecolor{darkgreen} {rgb}{0.0, 0.2, 0.13}
\colorlet{frontbackcolor}{blue}

Welcome to TeX.SX! Please provide a compilable minimal working example (MWE) that reproduces this problem. — Jasper Habicht, Apr 12 '23 at 11:39
I have tried to add as much code that I think is relevant to the problem and should reproduce the problem. Please let me know if this is not enough — thetruth, Apr 12 '23 at 12:00
Well, the MWE should be compilable. I think you should load packages after loading the document class (which you probably do), the color defintions should come before you actually use them, and also you should use \begin{document} and \end{document}. As it stands now, the code you provided is rather a bunch of unconnected snippets. — Jasper Habicht, Apr 12 '23 at 12:07

Jasper Habicht · Accepted Answer · 2023-04-12T13:13:00.640

The problem occurs due to an incompatibility between older version of the soul and the xcolor package as described here. The problem can be solved by updating the relevant packages to the latest version.

Alternatively, you can add the following code right after having loaded the soul package:

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\SOUL@ulunderline}{\dimen@}{\SOUL@dimen}{}{}
\patchcmd{\SOUL@ulunderline}{\dimen@}{\SOUL@dimen}{}{}
\patchcmd{\SOUL@ulunderline}{\dimen@}{\SOUL@dimen}{}{}
\newdimen\SOUL@dimen
\makeatother

As for your code, note that you need to add \\ after \caption{} inside a longtable environment if you want to typeset the caption above the table. So, to provide a full and compilable MWE:

\documentclass{report}
%Preamble
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{soul}
%%%%% the following is not needed with an up-to-date version of the soul package
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\SOUL@ulunderline}{\dimen@}{\SOUL@dimen}{}{}
\patchcmd{\SOUL@ulunderline}{\dimen@}{\SOUL@dimen}{}{}
\patchcmd{\SOUL@ulunderline}{\dimen@}{\SOUL@dimen}{}{}
\newdimen\SOUL@dimen
\makeatother
%%%%%
% Colours! 
\newcommand{\targetcolourmodel}{cmyk} 
\selectcolormodel{\targetcolourmodel}
\definecolor{yellow}    {rgb/cmyk}{0.9647,0.8157,0.3019 / 0.05,0.17,0.82,0}
\begin{document}
% Inside document
\begin{longtable}{|p{1cm}|p{4cm}|p{10cm}|}
\caption{Noun and verb analysis}\
\hline
ID & Requirement & Description \ \hline
\textbf{FR1} & Create account & Service agents must be able to \hl{create} an account \ \hline
\end{longtable}
\end{document}

\hl does not cover the entire text

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