General ⇒ table/figure background and border

[paulvanderheijden]

I am working on my masters thesis. The content is pretty technical (lots of graphs and formulas), so I am really trying to keep it interesting to read by designing a fitting layout. I have a few ideas but no idea how to do it:

I'd like my figures and tables to reside in a box. Just the content and not the title and caption. My primary colors will be, say, black and blue, so I'd like this box to have a 20% blue background and on the top and bottom a 100% blue border.

How do I do this? Should I make a class for this (never done that before).

A sideline question: I am feeling pretty comfortable with the typesetting part of Latex, but I would love to have some examples of beautifully typeset (color) books with sourcecode. Any source for that?

Thanks!

Paul

[localghost]

[...] I'd like my figures and tables to reside in a box. Just the content and not the title and caption. My primary colors will be, say, black and blue, so I'd like this box to have a 20% blue background and on the top and bottom a 100% blue border. [...]

I can only offer you a partial solution using the xcolor package.

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\documentclass[BCOR13mm,DIV15]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\begin{document}
  \begin{figure}[!ht]
    \centering
    \fcolorbox{blue}{blue!20}{
      \rule{6.4cm}{3.6cm}
    }
    \caption{A figure in a colored box}\label{fig:colorboxfig}
  \end{figure}
\end{document}

Best regards
Thorsten¹