Re: text color + highlight

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Vinh Nguyen <vinhdizzo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: text color + highlight
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 08:28:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C796B0EE-21B7-43B0-B7F7-BB259CA647A0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iq3kkef1.fsf@gmail.com>

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

> Vinh Nguyen <vinhdizzo@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Eric Schulte  
>> <schulte.eric@gmail.com> 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