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I want to add a box with a very light pink background and red border around a word but inline and within a sentence.

i.e. something like this (drawn with inkscape)

I know the mdframed package can be used for placing boxes around paragraphs, but it does not seem to work inline and also give colored boxes.

Possibly TikZ is a solution? From the little I know of TikZ, it can be used to draw pictures inline inside a sentence.

Update : Adding a solution using tcolorbox

Yes, it is possible with TikZ. You can do this in two ways:

• by including the code directly in the text.


• by creating a LaTeX command named autour which contains the TikZ code.

Here is an example of two possibilities that have different parameters in order to visually show their effects.

documentclass{article}

usepackage{tikz}

newcommand{autour}[1]{tikz[baseline=(X.base)]node [draw=red,fill=gray!40,semithick,rectangle,inner sep=2pt, rounded corners=3pt] (X) {#1};}



begin{document}



Quick brown fox tikz[baseline=(X.base)]node [draw=black,fill=cyan!20,thick,rectangle,inner sep=3pt, rounded corners=4pt] (X) {jumped}; over the lazy dog.

bigskip



Quick brown fox autour{jumped} over the lazy dog.

end{document}

Update : with tcolorbox

A simple adaptation of the code on page 16 of the manual indicated by @CarlaTeX in its commentary.

documentclass{article}

usepackage{tcolorbox}



newtcbox{entoure}[1][red]{on line,

arc=3pt,colback=#1!10!white,colframe=#1!50!black,

before upper={rule[-3pt]{0pt}{10pt}},boxrule=1pt,

boxsep=0pt,left=2pt,right=2pt,top=1pt,bottom=.5pt}



begin{document}



Quick brown fox entoure{jumped} over the lazy dog.



Quick brown fox entoure[blue]{jumped} over the lazy dog.

end{document}

This is a bit similar to AndréC's answer but to point out that there so some extent tikzmarknode, which comes with the really cool tikzmark library, got reinvented. And tikzmark allows you to do much more, of course.

documentclass{article}

usepackage{tikz}

usetikzlibrary{tikzmark}



begin{document}



section*{Some basic examples}



The quick brown fox tikzmarknode[draw,inner sep=2pt,rounded corners,fill=cyan!30]{A}{jumped} over the lazy dog.



bigskip



The quick brown fox tikzmarknode[draw,inner sep=2pt,rounded corners,fill=red!30]{B}{jumped} over the lazy dog.



section*{Some more elaborate examples}



As it is well known,

[ sumlimits_{tikzmarknode[rounded corners,fill=blue!30,inner sep=1pt]{k1}{k}=1}^infty

k~=~-frac{1}{12};,]

where $tikzmarknode[rounded corners,fill=blue!30,inner sep=2pt]{k2}{k}$ is a summation index.



tikz[overlay,remember picture]{draw[latex-latex] (B) to[bend left] (A);

draw[latex-latex] (k1) to[bend right] (k2);

}

end{document}