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From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
Subject: Re: org text color highlights fails
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:29:06 +0100
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To: Marvin Doyley <marvinpas@gmail.com>
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Hi,

You are not doing anything wrong.

The below solution only changes color in exported text (HTML, Latex).

It doesn't put different faces on different link types in the Org 
buffer. So it's not a great help in editing.

Yours,
Christian Moe

On 11/4/10 4:13 PM, Marvin Doyley wrote:
> 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]]
>
>
>
>
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