I see,

Does anybody know how to change text color in the Org buffer ?

for what it is worth I currently use the following for marking up my
students latex file

#+Latex_header:\newcommand{\insertt}[1]{\textcolor{blue}{#1} }     ; Insert
the following text
#+Latex_header:\newcommand{\delete}[1]{\sout{\textcolor{red}{#1}} }; delete
the following

thanks
M

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>wrote:

> 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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