[Tex/LaTex] Change enumerate items to color boxes in beamer

#enumeratebeamerformattinglists

Problem:

I am trying to find a way to customise enumerate items. Basically I want to keep the standard version but also want to change certain items to color boxes.

Minimal Working Example:

\documentclass[14pt]{beamer}
\begin{document}

\setbeamertemplate{enumerate item}{%
  \usebeamercolor[bg]{item projected}%
  \raisebox{1.5pt}{\colorbox{bg}{\color{fg}\footnotesize\insertenumlabel}}%
}

\begin{frame}
\begin{enumerate}
  \item Enum
  \item Enum
  \item Enum
\end{enumerate}
\end{frame}


\end{document}

Outputs:

Desired output:

Basically I want to be able to change the color of a specific enumerate box. The text that follows the item should always be vertically centered.

Update 1:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}

\newcommand{\specialitem}[3][white]{%
  \item[%
    \colorbox{#2}{\textcolor{#1}{\makebox(14,14){#3}}}%
  ]
}

\definecolor{editorOrange}{cmyk}{0, 0.8, 1, 0}
\definecolor{editorBlue}{cmyk}{1, 0.6, 0, 0}
\definecolor{editorGreen}{cmyk}{0.66, 0, 0.87, 0}
\definecolor{editorPink}{cmyk}{0, 1, 0, 0}

\begin{document}

\setlist[enumerate,1]{leftmargin=9mm}

\begin{enumerate}
  \specialitem{editorPink}{H} \textcolor{editorPink}{Hyper} lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut auctor metus ac fermentum rutrum. Phasellus convallis scelerisque nulla, eu sollicitudin diam rutrum id. Curabitur dapibus dapibus nisl ac tempus. Praesent viverra tortor a mollis efficitur. Donec vehicula risus nec varius ornare. Suspendisse facilisis ante eu ex ultricies viverra.

  \specialitem{editorBlue}{T} \textcolor{editorBlue}{Text} lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

  \specialitem{editorOrange}{M} \textcolor{editorOrange}{Markup} lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

  \specialitem{editorGreen}{L} \textcolor{editorGreen}{Language} lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

Update 1 (output):

Best Answer

Set the items manually inside an itemize. Below I defined \specialitem[<text colour>]{<colour>}{<content>} to act like \item:

\documentclass{beamer}

\setbeamertemplate{enumerate item}{%
  \usebeamercolor[bg]{item projected}%
  \raisebox{1.5pt}{\colorbox{bg}{\color{fg}\footnotesize\insertenumlabel}}%
}
\newcommand{\specialitem}[3][white]{%
  \item[%
    \colorbox{#2}{\textcolor{#1}{\makebox[1em]{#3}}}%
  ]
}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\begin{enumerate}
  \item Enum
  \item Enum
  \item Enum
\end{enumerate}

\begin{itemize}
  \specialitem{red!80}{H} \textcolor{red!80}{Here} is an item

  \specialitem{blue!60!white}{T} \textcolor{blue!60!white}{This} is another item

  \specialitem{orange!80!white}{M} \textcolor{orange!80!white}{Maybe} another item

  \specialitem{green!70!white}{L} \textcolor{green!70!white}{Let} me show you another item
\end{itemize}

\end{frame}

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Beamer: Change color of items

You need to use fg

\documentclass{beamer}
\setbeamercolor{enumerate item}{ fg=red}
\begin{document}
\frame{
\begin{enumerate}
\item test
\end{enumerate}
}
\end{document}

Refer to beameruserguide to learn more about the coloring scheme in beamer.

Update after the MWE we see that you want the following:

Update 2 According to the comment one wants subitems too:

\documentclass{beamer}

\usetheme[secheader]{Boadilla}

\usecolortheme{seagull} %gray and naughty


\definecolor{deepBlue}{HTML}{000066}

\setbeamercolor{item projected}{bg=deepBlue}
\usesubitemizeitemtemplate{%
    \tiny\raise1.5pt\hbox{\color{deepBlue}$\blacktriangleright$}%
}

\begin{document} 

\begin{frame}
\begin{itemize}
\item check
\begin{itemize}
\item check
\item check
\end{itemize}
\item check
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

item projectedis a special version for setting colors with circles and numbers or balls. In that case you need bg again. See beameruserguide. Since Boadilla defines the subitems with some hard-coding we need to do alike. \usesubitemizeitemtemplate will force subitems to be as it's argument. Imo this is not quite a good coding style, since users have to look it up in the source.

[Tex/LaTex] Automatic bold for every first character of a line

Assuming you do want fixed line ends:

\documentclass{article}
\newcommand\dob[1]{\textbf{#1}}
\newenvironment{boldfirst}{\obeylines\everypar{\dob}}{}
\begin{document}
\begin{boldfirst}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod
tempor incidunt ut labore
et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim
ad minim veniam, quis nostrud
exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquid
ex ea commodi consequat. Quis aute
iure reprehenderit in voluptate velit
esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.
Excepteur sint obcaecat cupiditat non proident,
sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt
mollit anim id est laborum.
\end{boldfirst}
\end{document}

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To make a nice professional job of it, you could also add some spacing before and afterwards, and control the indent of each line.

A little explanation

As explained in the TeXbook (p. 352) the \obeylines macro is defined in plain TeX to make the end-of-line character (0x13, or \^^M) an "active" character, and then to make it equivalent to \par. The effect of this is to make TeX treat each line as a separate paragraph.

You can then customise the exact effect in two ways. You can redefine \par to do something different, or you can use the \everypar mechanism, as I have done above. Normally the \everypar token list is empty, but if you define it to be non-empty then all the tokens in the list are copied into the beginning of every paragraph. See pp. 282-283 of the TeXbook.

If you want to redefine \par then bear in mind the following points:

You should redefine it before calling \obeylines
TeX saves the original meaning of \par as a command called \endgraf, which can be useful
You can combine both techniques

Restrictions

These facilities are part of Plain TeX, and therefore only available to LaTeX in formats that are built on top of Plain TeX (which is most of the normal ones). The TeXbook has a number of examples of how to use \obeylines effectively. As defined above the boldfirst environment will only work at the top level of a document - you could not use it as the argument to another command for example.