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Is there any way to increase the line thickness of the circles when using the circledsteps package?

@leandriis Thank you for your response using \thicklines and \linethickness{}.

Apologies for not being initially specific, but is there a way to globally set the line thickness for ALL occurrences of \Circled{} to \thicklines without having to preface EACH occurrence of \Circled{} ?

According to the answer provided below, the line thickness for \Circled{} can be adjusted by placing \thicklines and/or \linethickness{} in the preamble.

Update: After placing \linethickness{2pt} in the preamble, the \Circled{} line thickness increased globally, and placing \thicklines in the preamble increased the line thickness globally, presumably from 0.4pt to 0.8pt.

After increasing the line thickness with \linethickness{2pt}, a cursory check indicated the line thickness change did NOT appear to affect the line thickness elsewhere in the compiled file.

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circledsteps seems to internally use picture to draw the circle/oval shape. To increase the line thickness inside of a picture, you can use \thicklines. This will increase the line thickness from the default value of 0.4pt to 0.8pt. If you want to increase the thickness to an arbitrary value of your choice instead, you could alternatively use \linethickness{2pt} or any other value of your choice.

Depending on where you place these commands, the effect will be global for the whole document of just local to a single/few cicled numbers. Be aware thought, that using \thicklines in the preamble will not only change the line thickness of all circled numbers throughout the document but will also influence the line thickness of all picture environments inside the document.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{circledsteps}

\begin{document}


circled numbers, regular line width: \Circled{1} \Circled{100}.


{\thicklines
circled numbers, increased line width: \Circled{1} \Circled{100}.}


circled numbers, regular line width: \Circled{1} \Circled{100}.


{\linethickness{2pt}
circled numbers, increased line width: \Circled{1} \Circled{100}.}


circled numbers, regular line width: \Circled{1} \Circled{100}.


\end{document}
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