Re: [Orgmode] text color + highlight

[Carsten Dominik]

On Aug 8, 2010, at 11:00 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:

> Vinh Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Eric Schulte  
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > In playing with the patched code I sent out, I noticed that it may  
> > > be
> > > doing weird things to my headings (#+Title: etc...) in some Org-mode
> > > files, so probably it could use some more tweaking before any merge,
> > > also I'd not want to rush what could be a reasonably large change  
> > > into
> > > Org-mode without more discussion, but I agree I'd ultimately like  
> > > to see
> > > some form of this functionality appear in Org-mode.
> > >
> > > Best -- Eric
> >
> > Eric, so are you tweaking the code to give it a more org-like syntax?
> > If not, I'll have to get dirty with your patch to figure out the lisp
> > code.
> >
> > You're right the regular parentheses will probably be mixed up with
> > lisp code.  Sebastian also brought up that curly braces are hard to
> > type on a German keyboard.  Just googled up the layout -- don't even
> > seen them.
> >
> > What syntax to use...
>
> I've thought briefly about the following syntax
>
> [color[red] text to be colored red]

Nope, I am against this syntax.  If we introduce a more general syntax,
then it should be done in the way Samuel proposed.  WHich means
we firs get a keyword indtroducing the piece, and then properties.

Like

   $[style :color red the red text]

or

   $[face :color :italic t red the red text]

Something like the $ before "[" also would seem critical to disambiguate
from other uses of "[".

However, I am not too excited about extra syntax to get this kind of  
thing.
Would not oppose it, but probably never use it.

- Carsten

> - this would be extensible, e.g.
>
>  [background[yellow] highlighted text]
>
>  could export to the following html
>
>  <span "style=background:yellow;">highlighted text</span>
>
> - this would avoid "{}"s
>
> - this would look more "org-like" than the pure latex solution
>
> the only issue with the above is that it may conflate a new /markup/
> syntax with org-mode's existing /link/ syntax.
>
> Thoughts? -- Eric
>
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- Carsten