I want to create some letters boxed as in the Wordle game:
But so far i have not found a tool that allows me to do it. I want to embed them both in the title and in the document. How would you make them?
Color – Creating Wordle-Like Colored Letter Boxes in LaTeX
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You mean the fancybox (not fancyboxes) package? It does not support colors by itself.
I would use the framed package together with xcolor to define the fancy box you want. If you do not require special stuff like verbatim material you could simply go with:
\usepackage{xcolor}
% ...
\fcolorbox{<frame color>}{<background color>}{\parbox{\textwidth}{%
\color{<text color>}%
<text>
}}
Otherwise define an own framed environment. Then the box will be \textwidth wide by itself. It even support page break, i.e. splits over multiple pages if the internal text does.
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{framed}
\newenvironment{myfancybox}{%
\def\FrameCommand{\fboxsep=\FrameSep \fcolorbox{<frame color>}{<background color>}}%
\color{<text color>}\MakeFramed {\FrameRestore}}%
{\endMakeFramed}
I open a small discuss.
Here an approach using LaTeX3 in combination of some features defined in the kernel LaTeX2e.
The input of your colorbox is as follow:
\nestedbox[<options>]{<header>}{<inner box>}
where the inner box is a comma separated list.
The available options are:
outer-colorsets the background color of the whole boxinner-colorsets the background of the inner boxbgcolorsetsinner-colorandouter-colorline-colorsets the color of the frame`marginadds extra space to the widest wordalignmentchoose the alignment of the boxes. Available areleft,rightandcenterheader-fontsets the font of the headerlabel-fontsets the font of the inner boxes
Here the complete code.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{expl3,xparse}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\keys_define:nn { colorbox }
{
outer-color .tl_set:N = \l_colorbox_outercolor_tl,
inner-color .tl_set:N = \l_colorbox_innercolor_tl,
line-color .tl_set:N = \l_colorbox_linecolor_tl,
bgcolor .meta:n = { outer-color = #1 , inner-color = #1 },
margin .dim_set:N = \l_colorbox_margin_dim,
}
\keys_set:nn { colorbox } { bgcolor = white , line-color = black , margin = 20pt }
\tl_new:N \l_colorbox_left_align_tl
\tl_new:N \l_colorbox_right_align_tl
\keys_define:nn { colorbox }
{
alignment .choice:,
alignment / left .code:n = {
\tl_set:Nn \l_colorbox_left_align_tl {\null}
\tl_set:Nn \l_colorbox_right_align_tl {\hfill}
},
alignment / right .code:n = {
\tl_set:Nn \l_colorbox_left_align_tl {\hfill}
\tl_set:Nn \l_colorbox_right_align_tl {\null}
},
alignment / center .code:n = {
\tl_set:Nn \l_colorbox_left_align_tl {\hfill}
\tl_set:Nn \l_colorbox_right_align_tl {\hfill}
},
}
\keys_set:nn { colorbox } { alignment = center }
\keys_define:nn { colorbox }
{
header-font .tl_set:N = \l_colorbox_headerfont_tl,
label-font .tl_set:N = \l_colorbox_labelfont_tl,
}
\keys_set:nn { colorbox } { header-font = \bfseries , label-font=\normalfont }
%#1 = options
%#2 = top label
%#3 = inner boxes clist
\clist_new:N \l_colorbox_innerbox_clist
\tl_new:N \l_colorbox_boxlabel_tl
\dim_new:N \l_colorbox_widthest_label_dim
\NewDocumentCommand \nestedbox { O{} m m }
{
\keys_set:nn { colorbox } {#1}
\tl_set:Nn \l_colorbox_boxlabel_tl { #2 }
\clist_set:Nn \l_colorbox_innerbox_clist { #3 }
\clist_if_empty:NTF \l_colorbox_innerbox_clist
{
\fcolorbox { \l_colorbox_linecolor_tl }
{ \l_colorbox_outercolor_tl }
{ \tl_use:N \l_colorbox_boxlabel_tl }
}
{
\colorbox_find_widthest_label:NN \l_colorbox_boxlabel_tl \l_colorbox_innerbox_clist
\colorbox_output_inner_label:NN \l_colorbox_boxlabel_tl \l_colorbox_innerbox_clist
}
}
\cs_new:Npn \colorbox_find_widthest_label:NN #1#2
{
\hbox_set:Nn \l_tmpa_box { \tl_use:N #1}
\dim_set:Nn \l_colorbox_widthest_label_dim { \box_wd:N \l_tmpa_box }
\clist_map_inline:Nn #2
{
\hbox_set:Nn \l_tmpa_box { ##1 }
\dim_compare:nNnT
{ \box_wd:N \l_tmpa_box } > { \l_colorbox_widthest_label_dim }
{ \dim_set:Nn \l_colorbox_widthest_label_dim { \box_wd:N \l_tmpa_box } }
}
% \dim_use:N \l_colorbox_widthest_label_dim
}
\cs_new:Npn \colorbox_output_inner_label:NN #1#2
{
\fcolorbox { \l_colorbox_linecolor_tl }
{ \l_colorbox_outercolor_tl }
{
\begin{minipage}
{\dim_eval:w \l_colorbox_widthest_label_dim
+ \l_colorbox_margin_dim
+ 2\fboxsep +2\fboxrule
\dim_eval_end: }
\centering %\offinterlineskip
\hbox_to_wd:nn
{\l_colorbox_widthest_label_dim + \l_colorbox_margin_dim }
{
\l_colorbox_left_align_tl
\l_colorbox_headerfont_tl
\strut \tl_use:N #1
\l_colorbox_right_align_tl
}
\tex_vrule:D width \linewidth height 0pt \scan_stop:
\clist_map_inline:Nn #2
{ \\\nointerlineskip
\fcolorbox
{ \l_colorbox_innercolor_tl }
{ \l_colorbox_innercolor_tl }
{ \hbox_to_wd:nn
{\l_colorbox_widthest_label_dim + \l_colorbox_margin_dim }
{
\l_colorbox_left_align_tl
\l_colorbox_labelfont_tl
\strut ##1
\l_colorbox_right_align_tl
}
}
}
\end{minipage}
}
}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\begin{document}
\nestedbox{box label}{inner,foo, long long long text}
\nestedbox[inner-color=yellow,outer-color=green]{box label}{inner,foo, long long long text}
\nestedbox[inner-color=red!20,alignment=left,label-font=\itshape]{box label}{inner,foo, long long long text}
\end{document}
In the final pdf I have no lines between the inner boxes.
Best Answer
Here is a possibility using
tikzwith thematrixlibrary.I defined three colors:
great,goodandbad, which you can adjust to your liking.The wordle is a TikZ matrix with the nodes filled with
badby default, unless you include|[fill=<color>]|in the cell. To use in a title you must useampersand replacement.The node style is set globally using
tikzsetwith the stylewordlematrix. You can adjust the height, width, spacing and font there.To save some typing, I made styles for
fill=greatandfill=good,g/.style={fill=great}, h/.style={fill=good}and added them to the
tikzset. Here is the code: