Preparing pretty headings
This recipe will showcase how to bring some color into document headings.
How to do it...
We will use TikZ for coloring and positioning. Follow these steps:
- Set up a basic document with blindtext support:
\documentclass{scrartcl} \usepackage[automark]{scrpage2} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{blindtext}
- Load the
tikz
package beforehand, and pass a naming option to the implicitly loaded packagexcolor
to use names for predefined colors:\PassOptionsToPackage{svgnames}{xcolor} \usepackage{tikz}
- Define a macro that prints the heading, given as an argument:
\newcommand{\tikzhead}[1]{% \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay] \node[yshift=-2cm] at (current page.north west) {\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay] ...
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