[Orgmode] org text color highlights fails

[Marvin Doyley]

Hi there,

There have been some useful discussions on changing text color in org mode, a very useful feature when editing manuscripts.
Anyway, I tried the following function without any success. No change in color, it just behave like a normal link (i.e, underlined). Could someone shed some light on what I am doing wrong ?

Cheers,

M

;; org-mode color
(org-add-link-type
 "color" nil
 (lambda (path desc format)p
  (cond
   ((eq format 'html)
    (format "<span style=\"color:%s;\">%s</span>" path desc))

   ((eq format 'latex)
    (format "{\\color{%s}%s}" path desc)))))
;; org-mode highlight
(org-add-link-type
 "hl" nil
 (lambda (path desc format)
  (cond
   ((eq format 'html)

    (format "<font style=\"background-color:%s;\">%s</font>" path desc))
   ((eq format 'latex)
    (format "\\colorbox{%s}{%s}" path desc))))) ;; require \usepackage{color}

Examples:
[[color:blue][test this out]]
[[hl:yellow][highlighted text]]