beamer style text box

Question

If you're using beamer you can do some nice text boxes using:

\begin{block}{block title}content of block\end{block}

Which gives a text box something like this (the box with the header Esimerkki):

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How can I do the same thing in a regular latex document (I really like the look of the beamer text boxes and would like as close to this as possible).

Minimal reproducible example:

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\begin{document}
I wish I were inside of a really super cool text box so all the word would stop and look at me and say wow that text is pretty.  But alas I am just ordinary \LaTeX{} text.  I am sad.
\end{document}

Gonzalo Medina · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-25T23:29:34.887

72

Try the tcolorbox package. A little example

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\begin{tcolorbox}[colback=green!5,colframe=green!40!black,title=A nice heading]
\lipsum[2]
\end{tcolorbox}

\end{document}

enter image description here

The mdframed package can also be an option:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[framemethod=tikz]{mdframed}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\mdfdefinestyle{mystyle}{%
linecolor=green!40!black,outerlinewidth=1pt,%
frametitlerule=true,frametitlefont=\sffamily\bfseries\color{white},%
frametitlerulewidth=1pt,frametitlerulecolor=green!40!black,%
frametitlebackgroundcolor=green!40!black,
backgroundcolor=green!5,
innertopmargin=\topskip,
roundcorner=5pt
}
\newmdenv[style=mystyle]{exa}
\newenvironment{example}[1]
  {\begin{exa}[frametitle=#1]}
  {\end{exa}}

\begin{document}

\begin{example}{The Title}
\lipsum[1]
\end{example}

\end{document}

enter image description here

edited Sep 25 '12 at 23:29

answered Sep 25 '12 at 23:23

Gonzalo Medina

505,128

Perfect. Exactly what I was looking for. I'll mark it as correct as soon as the time limit expires. – Tyler Rinker Sep 25 '12 at 23:30
Using the mdframed package: how can we add "example chapter's number and a counting number : and then "The title"? – Y_gr Jun 18 '13 at 10:40
@giannis please open a fresh new question. – Gonzalo Medina Jun 18 '13 at 13:59
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Note: for document-wide settings with tcolorbox, use e.g. \tcbset{colback=green!5,colframe=green!40!black} in your preamble. Styling is not applied to nested boxes. See the docs. – Jonathan H May 08 '20 at 10:57

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 29 '14 at 21:46

For the record, there is also the bclogo package. Can use PsTricks or Tikz as graphics engine. It has nice features, but unfortunatly, documentation is in french only. See code example and ouput below. (sorry for the poor colors choice, I am not good at that!)

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\usepackage[tikz]{bclogo}
\presetkeys{bclogo}{
ombre=true,
epBord=3,
couleur = blue!15!white,
couleurBord = red,
arrondi = 0.2,
logo=\bctrombone
}{}
\begin{document}

\begin{bclogo}{The title}
\lipsum[1]
\end{bclogo}

\end{document}

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