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Basic question about colors

Date:          Tues, Jul 19 2005 3:36 am
Groups:        comp.text.tex

> I'm beginner in LaTex, I would like to add some nice colors
> in my LaTex document.
> Is it possible? I use directly pdflatex.

Yes:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color}

\begin{document}

I like \textcolor{red}{colored text}.

\end{document}

See grfguide.ps for more information. (Run "texdoc grfguide" if your TeX installation comes with the texdoc program.)

> And is it also possible to add easily tables with background color on
> the cells and different foreground color on the text?

Yes. Check out the colortbl package, which is available from CTAN (http://www.ctan.org/) if you don't already have it on your computer.

Scott Pakin

Basic question about colors

> Is CTAN a site which contains TeX modules as like CPAN for Perl modules?

Yes, only it's the other way around: CPAN is very much inspired by CTAN.

For your color questions: I can only suggest you use the xcolor package: provides the same features as color but adds much, much more. It is already part of teTeX 3.

Morten

Basic question about colors

> What is main differences of xcolor package from color package?
> Thank you in advance.

Mixing colours is very easy, convertion between colour models is also easy, there are some useful macros for colouring tables plus some other things. Have a look at the manual, it has a list and lots of examples.

Morten