Re: redsquare contd.

You could use the solution suggested by Sridhar with a modification to
give colour as a parameter to the command:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}

\newcommand{\coloursquare}[1]{\tikz \path
[fill=#1,draw=black]  (0,0) rectangle (10pt,10pt) ;}

\begin{document}

This is a red square~\coloursquare{red}\\
This is a blue square~\coloursquare{blue}

\end{document}


On 20 September 2012 15:37, Asha G <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Asha G <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I would like to create colored squares :
> > >
> > > \blacksquare creates a filled black square
> > >
> > > but using the same logic
> > >
> > > \redsquare does not give  a filled red square but an error message.
> > >
> > You can use tikz to do that. Here is a MWE :
> >
> >
> > \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> > %
> > \usepackage{tikz}
> >
> > \newcommand{\redsquare}{\tikz \path [fill=red,draw=black]  (0,0)
> > rectangle (10pt,10pt) ;}
> >
> > \begin{document}
> >
> > This is a red square~\redsquare
> >
> > I am trying to mention \redsquare in my caption as different plots are of
> different colors - \redsquare, \greensquare and so on. It is a bit unwieldy
> to write this entire program in the caption.Is there some other way of
> going about it. I think I did try package xcolor to no effect. But will try
> again.
> Asha Gopinathan
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