Michael Gerz wrote:
> Herbert Voss schrieb:
>> Michael Gerz wrote:
>>
>>
>>> does anybody know why the following LaTeX construct (soul + xcolor) does
>>> not work:
>>>
>>> \st{\textcolor{red}{hello world}}}
>>>
>>> Error message:
>>>
>>> Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `{red}'.
>>> ...
>>> file:///C:/Dokumente%20und%20Einstellungen/ms/Eigene%20Dateien/ct-test.tex
>>> <cid:part1.00020208.06010809@teststep.org>
>>> It seems like soul is very picky about its arguments. If nobody knows a
>>> better solution, I am going to define \setstcolor{red} and drop the
>>> xcolor package.
>>>
>>
>> ??? huh it is only a moving argument ...
>> the error message says it all: a color {red} is not defined, including
>> the parenthesis-> the argument was expanded, but shouldn't ...
>>
>> \st{\protect\textcolor{red}{hello world}}
>>
> Thanks, Herbert.
>
> I changed the macro accordingly but I still don't get the desired result.
>
> Please have a look at the attached TeX file. I would expect to see some
> striked out text but in fact the text is just colored.
>
> Any idea what goes wrong?
>
> Michael
>
>
> PS: changebar.sty fails if it is used inside a \section{} or \caption{}.
> Do think that \protect will also help in this case?
yes, all non robust macros will fail as argument in another macro.
> %% LyX 1.5.0svn created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
> %% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
> \documentclass[english]{article}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
> \usepackage{soul}
> \usepackage{xcolor}
>
> \makeatletter
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
> \newcommand{\lyxinserted}[1]{\textcolor{blue}{#1}}
> \newcommand{\lyxdeleted}[1]{\st{\protect\textcolor{red}{#1}}}
try the other way round
\newcommand{\lyxdeleted}[1]{\textcolor{red}{\st{#1}}}
Herbert
