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HighlighterPalette

Create a palette with a button and a color slider for setting a background color in the selection

Contributed by: Jayanta Phadikar and Kunal Khadke

ResourceFunction["HighlighterPalette"][]

creates a palette with a button and a color slider for setting the background color of a selection.

Details

The typical way to highlight is to use the menu item Format ▶ Background Color and then select a color. The palette is helpful for quickly and conveniently highlighting different pieces of code and text while creating a presentation.

Examples

Basic Examples

Create the palette:

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Select the relevant parts to be highlighted, choose a color using the color slider and click on the Highlight button:

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$Plot[{x^(1/4), x^(3/4), x^(3/2), x^(7/2)}, {x, 0, 2}, PlotStyle -> {Thick, Automatic, Red, Dashed}, PlotLegends -> Automatic ]$

Highlight both code and text:

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$Manipulate[x^2, {x, 1, 100}]$

Publisher

Kunal Khadke

Version History

1.0.1 – 19 July 2022
1.0.0 – 17 August 2021

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License Information

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License