Text Formatting ⇒ Highlighting a single word

[coachbennett1981]

For the life of me I can't remember/find how to highlight a single word in latex. I can change the color, but I would like to highlight instead.

Please, somebody tell me. I know its cheating, but I need this

[gmedina]

Hi,

perhaps the \colorbox command could be useful:

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\begin{document}

text text text \colorbox{red}{text} text text

\end{document}

[localghost]

Define a command with an optional argument for the text color and a mandatory one for the color of the surrounding box.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}

\newcommand{\highlight}[3][black]{{\fboxsep0.5pt\colorbox{#2}{\color{#1} #3}}}

\begin{document}
  A sentence with \highlight[white]{blue!50}{some highlighted text} in the middle.

  Another sentence with \highlight{green!50}{highlighted text} in another color for text and box.
\end{document}

Best regards
Thorsten

[gmedina]

Define a command with an optional argument for the text color and a mandatory one for the color of the surrounding box...

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...
\newcommand{\highlight}[3][black]{{\fboxsep0.5pt\colorbox{#2}{\color{#1} #3}}}
...

Didn't you mean with two mandatory arguments? (the box color and its contents).

[localghost]

Didn't you mean with two mandatory arguments? (the box color and its contents).

Of course you are right. Just a matter of false expression. I only referred to the arguments regarding the colors and forgot the argument for the actual contents. Thanks for the hint preventing confusion.

[coachbennett1981]

Curses!! You guys make it to easy... AHHH!!!

thank you