Highlight environment by setting a violet background color that works on xelatex

Question

Please, what I need is an example environment that has a violet [rgb(238, 130, 238) for example] background, the font color black and this has to work on xelatex (I need this compiler because I'm working with Japanese texts and furigana that only works on xelatex)

Use this sentence on your example: \usepackage{mathptmx} \begin{document} \begin{example} {\fontsize{25}{30}\selectfont 口} meaning mouth Kun'yomi: くち\ On'yomi: コウ、ク\ \end{example} \end{document}

As of 2020, the font will also work in LuaLaTeX, which has fewer color bugs. — Davislor, Dec 24 '20 at 23:21

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 24 '20 at 23:26

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you can e.g. use tcolorbox. It will works with xelatex too:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\definecolor{myviolett}{RGB}{238, 130, 238}
\begin{document}
\begin{tcolorbox}[colback=myviolett]
some text
\end{tcolorbox}
\end{document}

answered Dec 24 '20 at 23:26

Ulrike Fischer

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Thank you, for this comment, especially for this quick answer at this time of the year. This will work, but I expecting something more sophisticated for a book example, like @Jonathan Komar's answer on https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/21227/example-environment ... but the package "mdframed" always results in an error on xelatex. I'll use this in my article's texts now! Thank you, hombre! – amuniz1 Dec 24 '20 at 23:50
@Alex990MW Ulrike is a mujer. :) – Davislor Dec 25 '20 at 00:00
Sorry, perdão, gomenasai! @Ulrike Fischer – amuniz1 Dec 25 '20 at 00:05
You only asked about violett background and black text, if you want something more sophisticated you should be more specific. Beside this: everything that you can do with mdframed is also possible with tcolorbox (and more, as it is a much more powerful package). – Ulrike Fischer Dec 25 '20 at 11:27

Davislor · Answer 2 · 2020-12-25T00:12:04.083

The following works in either LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX:

\documentclass{article}
\tracinglostchars=2 % Warn if a character is missing
\usepackage{iftex} % For \ifluatex, \ifxetex
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{unicode-math} % For \setmathfont
\usepackage{xcolor, framed} % For shaded*
\defaultfontfeatures{ Scale=MatchLowercase,
                      Ligatures=TeX }
\babelfont{rm}
          [Ligatures=Common,Scale=1.0,Language=Default]{TeX Gyre Termes} % Clone of Times.
\babelfont{sf}
          [Ligatures=Common,Language=Default]{TeX Gyre Heros} % Clone of Helvetica.
\babelfont{tt}
          [Language=Default]{Libertinus Mono}
\setmathfont{TeX Gyre Termes Math}
\ifluatex
  \babelprovide[import, onchar=ids fonts]{japanese}
\else
  \babelprovide[import]{japanese}
  \usepackage{ucharclasses}
  \setTransitionsForJapanese%
    {\begin{otherlanguage}{japanese}}%
    {\end{otherlanguage}}
\fi
\babelfont[japanese]{rm}
          [Renderer=HarfBuzz]{HaranoAjiMincho}
\babelfont[japanese]{sf}
          [Renderer=HarfBuzz]{HaranoAjiGothic}
% Define \babelfont[japanese]{tt} here, if needed.
\definecolor{shadecolor}{RGB}{238, 130, 238}
\newenvironment{example}%
               {\begin{shaded}}%
               {\end{shaded}}
\begin{document}
\begin{example}
{\huge 口} meaning mouth Kun'yomi: くち\ On'yomi: コウ、ク\ 
\end{example}
\end{document}

Here, I used the framed package, which should be able to deal with page breaks. Ulrike Fischer’s solution based on tcolorbox will also work, and you can configure that package to do fancier things.

Highlight environment by setting a violet background color that works on xelatex

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