Utilize the "soul" package. (Side note, I think the "color" package should be loaded for this to work as well. The class I am using for my thesis already has it loaded, and I saw this somewhere, so just in case.)
\usepackage{soul}
Then use the following command to highlight text:
\hl{text to be highlighted}
Screenshots:
Although, it seems you cannot highlight citations using this command. There is probably a way to do this.
Update: 3-9-12
You can use the \hl command around text options such as \textit and \textbf. To use different colors to highlight I found this neat command here:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5959/cool-text-highlighting-in-latex
\newcommand{\hlc}[2][yellow]{ {\sethlcolor{#1} \hl{#2}} }
which is to go into the preamble. The command is then:
\hlc[green]{Text goes here.}
Screenshot:
This is interesting, but it would be much more useful to be able to highlight references and citations. Did you find a way to do this?
ReplyDelete\mbox{\cite{}}
DeleteThank you this worked for me
Deleteyes, do you know how to highlight all text, references and citations? Thank you very much... please help
ReplyDeleteHi, sorry, I have not yet found a way to do this. Honestly, I haven't looked much, but I will keep it in mind and try to get an answer.
ReplyDeleteOk, after a quick search, I found that if you put an extra set of brackets around the \cite{}, then the highlighting should work!!
ReplyDeleteSo for example,
\hl{{\cite{citation}}}
It should work for other citation types too, \citeyear, etc.
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20021/how-to-highlight-paragraph-linebreak-preserving-as-well-as-itemize-tabular-et
I'll make a separate post about this as well.