Re: tugindia Digest, Vol 117, Issue 8

Thank you, Asha, It works well.

On 21 September 2012 15:30, <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:37:54 +0530
> From: Asha G <[email protected]>
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> Subject: [Tugindia] redsquare contd.
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> > 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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> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:35:33 +0530
> From: Umesh Mohan <[email protected]>
> To: TUGIndia Mailing List <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Tugindia] redsquare contd.
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> 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}
>
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> 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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