Text Formatting ⇒ Color Box Formatting

[kjkazinski]

I want to have a black box with white text. I want the box to go all the way across the column in a multi-columned document. I thought a \colorbox would be the way to go but I can not find a width command.

This is what I am using:

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\colorbox{black}{\color{white}\huge{{\textbf{(A0.0) GENERAL RULES}}}}
\newline

I used a \framebox but I could not find a fill method for it.

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\framebox[\columnwidth][l]{\textbf{(A1.1) INTRODUCTION TO THE CAPTAIN'S EDITION}}\\
\newline

Am I using the wrong type of box or just missing a command.

[GerlofVito]

You should be able to do this with an adjustbox from the adjustbox package. Have a look at the documentation. You can specify width, frame color, text color and background color.

[kjkazinski]

Thank you for the information. I have been working with the adjustbox and I am able to create the boxes that fill the column and have a black background with white text.

The only problem I am having is my text is all the same size. It seems as if the \large and \huge commands are being ignored. Am I missing something?

Thanks.

[GerlofVito]

Well it's hard to say for certain since I can't see your code. But for me, the following works fine:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{adjustbox}

\begin{document}
\adjustbox{fbox}{\footnotesize {\Large Large text} and {\small Small Text} and even {\Huge Huge text} }
\end{document}

You could try uploading a minimal working example, and I'll see if anything jumps out at me.

[cgnieder]

This is what I am using:

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\noindent
\colorbox{black}{\color{white}\huge{{\textbf{(A0.0) GENERAL RULES}}}}
\newline

I used a \framebox but I could not find a fill method for it.

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\noindent
\framebox[\columnwidth][l]{\textbf{(A1.1) INTRODUCTION TO THE CAPTAIN'S EDITION}}\\
\newline

This looks to me as if you're trying to format section headers (in the appendix?). If that's the case you should probably use something like the titlesec package.

Regards