Color "item #"

[David Carlisle]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 at 12:23, Jerry Seibert <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 22:54:14 +0000, David Carlisle stated:
>
> Thanks David, I had not considered that approach before. While I have
> your attention, I do have one other quick question. I have used the
> "soul" package to create text background colors. I can use the
> "\hl{text}" command inside an enumerate listing; however, it can only
> be used AFTER an "\item" command, ie
>
> \begin{enumerate}
>         \item \hl{This is text with a yellow background}
> \end{enumerate}
>
> If I try to place the "\hl" command before the "\item" an error
> message is issued.
>


you could use \ul in the label format (or rather a local command that you
define to be \url or not) in a similar way to color, or simpler if you want
a rectangular box around the whole list use \colorbox around a \parbox with
the list. If you are using luatex you could look at using lua-ul instead of
soul, as it attacks things at a different level and avoids many of the
complications soul has to deal with.


> Again, I can do it in MS Word, so I figure that there has to be a
> relatively easy way to do it in LaTeX also. I am just not finding it.
>

Your expectations are rather different to mine:-) The underlying models of
TeX and Word are so fundamentally different I would find it natural that
things that are easy in Word are harder in TeX and vice versa.

David


> --
> Thanks!
>
> Jerry
>
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