How can I draw oval circle around a string?

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How can I draw oval circle around a string? For example, when I have "1,3,4,6", how can I put them in a circle?

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Have you seen this post: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/103557/size-of-tikz-ellipse-node — dustin, Aug 19 '13 at 21:04
You can use any of the methods provided in Putting a coloured background behind text without adding whitespace or How to specify a fill color in RGB format in a node in tikzpicture? — Werner, Aug 19 '13 at 21:45
Here is another related question: Boxing a number and aligning it vertically along the baseline You can use every shape of TikZ of course. Your example resembles the rounded rectangle shape from the shapes.misc library. — Qrrbrbirlbel, Aug 19 '13 at 23:37

score 16 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

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I found this code works fine with me.

\usetikzlibrary{arrows}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}
\newcommand{\mymk}[1]{%
  \tikz[baseline=(char.base)]\node[anchor=south west, draw,rectangle, rounded corners, inner sep=2pt, minimum size=7mm,
    text height=2mm](char){\ensuremath{#1}} ;}

\newcommand*\circled[1]{\tikz[baseline=(char.base)]{
            \node[shape=circle,draw,inner sep=2pt] (char) {#1};}}

Hello, \mymk{1,2,3,4,5} world \circled{1}

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Refer to How to draw a circle around text and Good way to make \textcircled numbers?.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

Community

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answered Aug 19 '13 at 23:23

prosseek

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it'd be great if you could reference your source – cmhughes Aug 20 '13 at 03:44
@cmhughes: updated my answer. – prosseek Aug 20 '13 at 04:01
You can control the "roundedness" of the corners by passing values to rounded corners. For example, rounded corners=10pt would produce a shape more closely resembling the one in your question. – Herr K. Aug 20 '13 at 05:39
Using DeclareRobustCommand instead of newcommand was necessary for me to make it work with some bibtex / backref commands. – Watson Jan 12 '21 at 08:08

Herr K. · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-20T05:43:17.240

The shapes.misc library offers the rounded rectangle shape. You can also use the shadows library to add shadows.

\documentclass[border=3pt]{standalone}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.misc,shadows}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}[baseline=(char.base)]
\node(char)[draw,fill=white,
  shape=rounded rectangle,
  drop shadow={opacity=.5,shadow xshift=0pt},
  minimum width=1.8cm]
  {1,3,4,6};
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

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score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 20 '13 at 04:38

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Just for comparison, here is a ConTeXt solution:

\defineframed
    [roundframed]
    [
      corner=round,
      location=low,
      loffset=0.1em,
      roffset=0.1em,
    ]

\starttext

Hello \roundframed{1,2,3,4} world.

\stoptext

which gives

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answered Aug 20 '13 at 04:38

Aditya

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score 4 · Answer 4 · edited Aug 19 '13 at 21:17

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Sorry, I don't have the ability to add comments on the TeX site yet. You can look at the thread dustin mentioned. Alternatively, you can use a box: $\boxed{1,3,4,6}$ , which will appear:

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edited Aug 19 '13 at 21:17

dustin

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answered Aug 19 '13 at 21:07

Ahaan S. Rungta

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You don't need to comment if you have solution to propose. Can you make your solution compilable though and add the output image? – dustin Aug 19 '13 at 21:08
I think the poster wants a flat edges above and below the string and then rounded sides. – dustin Aug 19 '13 at 21:18
Ah, then, I think your link would work better. Thanks for edit, by the way! I don't have the ability to post images yet. – Ahaan S. Rungta Aug 19 '13 at 21:24
Just post links and someone will change it for you. – dustin Aug 19 '13 at 21:25

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 14 '15 at 11:25

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Here is one solution using tcolorbox...

   \documentclass{article}
     \usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}

    \begin{document}
    \tcbox[enhanced,drop shadow,colback=white]{\Large 1,2,3,4}
    \end{document}

The out put is..

answered Dec 14 '15 at 11:25

David

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How can I draw oval circle around a string?

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