I want to really put an emphasis on some central piece of text I'm using in a Beamer slide. I'm using tikz and overlay to put it, enlarged, on the center of the page, using the following code:
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[at=(current page.center)] {
\scalebox{2}{\Huge\texttt{{This is important!}}}
};
\end{tikzpicture}
Can I add a drop shadow to the letter themselves, so they would look even more emphasized? Is there some other decoration that can be added to the text itself, like a glow, etc.? Or does PGF ignores node text altogether? The text should be in typewriter style, so using special fancy fonts is probably not the solution.
Best Answer
This is a terrible hack, and doesn't really fit your situation exactly, but I'm new to TeX and TikZ. Just an idea to get the ball rolling.
Edit: Marc van Dongen correctly pointed out I should use font-dependent offsets. And since I was fiddling with the code anyway, I tried blurring the shadow, hillbilly style.