What is the difference between textcolor and color?
I would like to define a new command to work as an alert command. If I want to alert some part of my text I would simply write alert{}. But I want the result in red color.
What is the best way to do this? I tried
defalert#1{{color{red}{#1}}}
but I know that there is textcolor also. I want my command to work both for text and math contents.
What is the difference between them?
color
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I would like to define a new command to work as an alert command. If I want to alert some part of my text I would simply write alert{}. But I want the result in red color.
What is the best way to do this? I tried
defalert#1{{color{red}{#1}}}
but I know that there is textcolor also. I want my command to work both for text and math contents.
What is the difference between them?
color
asked Dec 8 '12 at 0:25
SigurSigur
25.8k457140
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I would like to define a new command to work as an alert command. If I want to alert some part of my text I would simply write alert{}. But I want the result in red color.
What is the best way to do this? I tried
defalert#1{{color{red}{#1}}}
but I know that there is textcolor also. I want my command to work both for text and math contents.
What is the difference between them?
color
asked Dec 8 '12 at 0:25
SigurSigur
25.8k457140
I would like to define a new command to work as an alert command. If I want to alert some part of my text I would simply write alert{}. But I want the result in red color.
What is the best way to do this? I tried
defalert#1{{color{red}{#1}}}
but I know that there is textcolor also. I want my command to work both for text and math contents.
What is the difference between them?
color
color
asked Dec 8 '12 at 0:25
SigurSigur
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asked Dec 8 '12 at 0:25
SigurSigur
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SigurSigur
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Despite the name textcolor also works in math mode. The main difference is just one of syntax, textcolor takes text as an argument (like textrm) color affects all text to the end of the group (like rmfamily). However textcolor also executes leavevmode which makes the color special occur in a much less destructive place as part of the paragraph rather than on a vertical list. So textcolor is usually a better choice unless you are setting a colour for a large amount of text, such as the whole document.
answered Dec 8 '12 at 0:32
David CarlisleDavid Carlisle
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Thanks. I noticed thatcolorpackage is required. Is there some color commands which needs only basic packages?
– Sigur
Dec 8 '12 at 0:38
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There is basic underlying support for colour in the latex format but no actual top level colour commands. color is part of the required latex distribution so it is as basic as say article.cls
– David Carlisle
Dec 8 '12 at 0:39
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Despite the name textcolor also works in math mode. The main difference is just one of syntax, textcolor takes text as an argument (like textrm) color affects all text to the end of the group (like rmfamily). However textcolor also executes leavevmode which makes the color special occur in a much less destructive place as part of the paragraph rather than on a vertical list. So textcolor is usually a better choice unless you are setting a colour for a large amount of text, such as the whole document.
answered Dec 8 '12 at 0:32
David CarlisleDavid Carlisle
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Thanks. I noticed thatcolorpackage is required. Is there some color commands which needs only basic packages?
– Sigur
Dec 8 '12 at 0:38
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There is basic underlying support for colour in the latex format but no actual top level colour commands. color is part of the required latex distribution so it is as basic as say article.cls
– David Carlisle
Dec 8 '12 at 0:39
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Despite the name textcolor also works in math mode. The main difference is just one of syntax, textcolor takes text as an argument (like textrm) color affects all text to the end of the group (like rmfamily). However textcolor also executes leavevmode which makes the color special occur in a much less destructive place as part of the paragraph rather than on a vertical list. So textcolor is usually a better choice unless you are setting a colour for a large amount of text, such as the whole document.
answered Dec 8 '12 at 0:32
David CarlisleDavid Carlisle
494k4111371885
Thanks. I noticed thatcolorpackage is required. Is there some color commands which needs only basic packages?
– Sigur
Dec 8 '12 at 0:38
6
There is basic underlying support for colour in the latex format but no actual top level colour commands. color is part of the required latex distribution so it is as basic as say article.cls
– David Carlisle
Dec 8 '12 at 0:39
add a comment |
Despite the name textcolor also works in math mode. The main difference is just one of syntax, textcolor takes text as an argument (like textrm) color affects all text to the end of the group (like rmfamily). However textcolor also executes leavevmode which makes the color special occur in a much less destructive place as part of the paragraph rather than on a vertical list. So textcolor is usually a better choice unless you are setting a colour for a large amount of text, such as the whole document.
answered Dec 8 '12 at 0:32
David CarlisleDavid Carlisle
494k4111371885
Despite the name textcolor also works in math mode. The main difference is just one of syntax, textcolor takes text as an argument (like textrm) color affects all text to the end of the group (like rmfamily). However textcolor also executes leavevmode which makes the color special occur in a much less destructive place as part of the paragraph rather than on a vertical list. So textcolor is usually a better choice unless you are setting a colour for a large amount of text, such as the whole document.
answered Dec 8 '12 at 0:32
David CarlisleDavid Carlisle
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answered Dec 8 '12 at 0:32
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answered Dec 8 '12 at 0:32
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answered Dec 8 '12 at 0:32
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Thanks. I noticed thatcolorpackage is required. Is there some color commands which needs only basic packages?
– Sigur
Dec 8 '12 at 0:38
6
There is basic underlying support for colour in the latex format but no actual top level colour commands. color is part of the required latex distribution so it is as basic as say article.cls
– David Carlisle
Dec 8 '12 at 0:39
add a comment |
Thanks. I noticed thatcolorpackage is required. Is there some color commands which needs only basic packages?
– Sigur
Dec 8 '12 at 0:38
6
There is basic underlying support for colour in the latex format but no actual top level colour commands. color is part of the required latex distribution so it is as basic as say article.cls
– David Carlisle
Dec 8 '12 at 0:39
Thanks. I noticed that
color package is required. Is there some color commands which needs only basic packages?– Sigur
Dec 8 '12 at 0:38
Thanks. I noticed that
color package is required. Is there some color commands which needs only basic packages?– Sigur
Dec 8 '12 at 0:38
6
6
There is basic underlying support for colour in the latex format but no actual top level colour commands. color is part of the required latex distribution so it is as basic as say article.cls
– David Carlisle
Dec 8 '12 at 0:39
There is basic underlying support for colour in the latex format but no actual top level colour commands. color is part of the required latex distribution so it is as basic as say article.cls
– David Carlisle
Dec 8 '12 at 0:39
add a comment |
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