Text Formatting ⇒ Highlighting text

[TobiTuberkel]

I'm trying to highlight text (which can be anything from a single word to whole sentences/passages) using the soul and color packages.

This works fine except that certain characters (e.g. lower case 'f's) get "cut off" in a peculiar way. Here's an example...

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color,soul}
\definecolor{lightgray}{gray}{0.85}
\sethlcolor{lightgray}
\begin{document}
\hl{aaa aaf faa aaa}\par
\hl{\textit{aaa aaf faa aaa}}
\end{document}

Any idea how this may be rectified?
Thanks, T

[php1ic]

Looks like each word is created and positioned individually with the background colour. The "f" character is too wide so is covered by the background of the next word.

Add a small space to words that end with an "f"

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color,soul}
\definecolor{lightgray}{gray}{0.85}
\sethlcolor{lightgray}
\begin{document}
\hl{aaa aaf faa aaa}\par
\hl{\textit{aaa aaf faa aaa}}

\hl{aaa aaf\, faa aaa}\par
\hl{\textit{aaa aaf\, faa aaa}}
\end{document}

Or just use a colorbox

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{color}

\definecolor{light-gray}{gray}{0.85}

\begin{document}
\colorbox{light-gray}{aaa aaf faa aaa}
\end{document}