LaTeX Cookbook

Preparing pretty headings

This recipe will showcase how to bring some color into document headings.

How to do it...

We will use TikZ for coloring and positioning. Follow these steps:

1. Set up a basic document with blindtext support:

   \documentclass{scrartcl}
   \usepackage[automark]{scrpage2}
   \usepackage[english]{babel}
   \usepackage{blindtext}

2. Load the tikz package beforehand, and pass a naming option to the implicitly loaded package xcolor to use names for predefined colors:

   \PassOptionsToPackage{svgnames}{xcolor}
   \usepackage{tikz}

3. Define a macro that prints the heading, given as an argument:

   \newcommand{\tikzhead}[1]{% \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay] \node[yshift=-2cm] at (current page.north west) {\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay] ...