Highlight, textcolor, and boldface simultaneously

Question

I would like some portion of the text to have all three features but it's not compiling. It works two at a time but not with all three.

\hl{\textbf{foo}}
\hl{\textcolor{red}{foo}}
\textbf{\textcolor{red}{foo}}

The above three work but this doesn't

\hl{\textbf{\textcolor{red}{foo}}}

I have tried all 6 combinations.. I think.

Thanks

That'll be pretty intense! I hope it's a warning to really not do something ... like pushing that mysteriously unlabeled red button. — jon, Oct 31 '13 at 04:05
Could you turn your snippet into a complete minimal working example (MWE) — cmhughes, Oct 31 '13 at 04:10
I recommend seeing this link. It contains some good examples of different approaches. https://texblog.org/2015/05/20/using-colors-in-a-latex-document/ — Mohsenasm, Oct 18 '21 at 08:17

score 157 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 31 '13 at 04:54

157

Put \hl{..} inside.

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{color,soul}
\begin{document}
  \hl{foo}
  \hl{\textbf{foo}} 
  \textcolor{red}{foo}
  \textbf{\textcolor{red}{\hl{foo}}}
  \textcolor{red}{\textbf{\hl{foo}}}
\end{document}

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answered Oct 31 '13 at 04:54

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And don't be afraid of getting eye cancer :-) – Daniel Oct 31 '13 at 09:10
4

@Daniel hehe, I won't color my words like this. :-) – Oct 31 '13 at 09:14
@HarishKumar Thanks! I guess I hadn't tried all 6 combinations. – Amatya Nov 01 '13 at 02:34
9

how is this done for beamer? – S_S Jul 12 '15 at 11:37
Not sure why \hl command is not working for me. I was using with beamer. – Masud Rahman Oct 28 '17 at 07:45
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You guys were not mentioning which package one should include, in order to have \hl working. (Or, color, soul is not working for Beamer. – llinfeng Feb 20 '18 at 16:35
This doesnot seems working for environments like theorems. Means couldnot highlight a theorem. – David Jun 18 '18 at 12:42
Help, please. I got an error. If I have a command defined with \newcommand inside the \hl command, it says there is an extra } on the new command. – Eduardo Reis May 31 '20 at 22:22
The soul package is not compatible with UTF-8 encoding use the color package. – alemol Nov 23 '20 at 17:20
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For beamer see https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/460764/152568 – ijuneja Jul 08 '21 at 11:36
@Daniel, I get eye cancer every time I use Latex... – nim.py Oct 13 '21 at 15:27
soulutf8 should be used for non-English texts – koppor Sep 30 '22 at 10:04

SDrolet · Answer 2 · 2017-10-31T15:06:04.310

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
~\\
\colorbox{pink}{highlight}\\
\colorbox{green}{highlight}\\
\colorbox{yellow}{highlight}\\
\bfseries\colorbox{pink}{highlight + boldface}\\
\colorbox{green}{highlight + boldface}\\
\colorbox{yellow}{highlight + boldface}\\
\color{red}\colorbox{pink}{highlight  + boldface  + colored text}\\
\colorbox{green}{highlight  + boldface + colored text}\\
\colorbox{yellow}{highlight  + boldface  + colored text}\\
\color{red}\colorbox{pink}{\parbox{10cm}{
highlight  + boldface  + long long long  long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long colored text}}\\
\color{red}\colorbox{green}{\parbox{10cm}{
highlight  + boldface  + long long long  long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long colored text}}\\
\color{red}\colorbox{yellow}{\parbox{10cm}{
highlight  + boldface  + long long long  long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long colored text}}\\
\end{document}

edited Oct 31 '17 at 15:06

answered Jul 11 '16 at 22:56

SDrolet

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5

The problem is that you are building a box and hence your text is not broken at the end of line. – yannis Oct 29 '17 at 11:16
1

@yannis I added an example of a long colored text. – SDrolet Nov 01 '17 at 01:36
4

I think "textcolor{}" should be mentioned. "color{}" by itself is causing text that follows to change as well. – ThatsRightJack Nov 25 '18 at 22:49
5

And how to highlight text over several lines in the middle of a paragraph? Thank you – Confounded Jan 18 '21 at 13:28
But when you number the lines (with lineno for example) it labels whole box instead of individual lines. How can we solve this problem? – Yasin Şale Jan 15 '24 at 13:52
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@YasinŞale Use \hl and \sethlcolor from the soul package instead, it can break highlighted text over mutliple lines. – Fritz Mar 08 '24 at 15:58

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