From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric Schulte" Subject: Re: text color + highlight Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:00:50 -0600 Message-ID: <87iq3kkef1.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87pqxw5cb1.fsf@gnu.org> <87mxszcsuv.fsf@gmail.com> <87d3tvru38.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34335 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiCzI-0004Uu-1A for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:00:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiCzG-0006ww-Rk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:00:55 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:61729) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiCzG-0006wn-NF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:00:54 -0400 Received: by iwn10 with SMTP id 10so3977561iwn.0 for ; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:00:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Vinh Nguyen's message of "Sun, 8 Aug 2010 07:59:49 -0700") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Vinh Nguyen Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Bastien Vinh Nguyen writes: > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Eric Schulte 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] - this would be extensible, e.g. [background[yellow] highlighted text] could export to the following html highlighted text - 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