Thank you (Nick and Tom). Both the solutions above worked.

Regards,
Chai

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:

> Aloha Chai,
>
> Chaitanya Krishna <icymist@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I would like to have some text in color when I export my org document to
> > latex.
> >
> > I tried this:
> > ...
> > #+latex_header: \usepackage{color}
> > \textcolor{red}{Text I want in red}
>
> One way is with a macro, e.g.,
>
> #+MACRO: red \textcolor{red}{$1}
>
> This is {{{red(Text I want in red)}}}.
>
> Which exports to
>
> This is \textcolor{red}{Text I want in red}.
>
>
> Or, more generally,
> #+MACRO: color \textcolor{$1}{$2}
>
> This is {{{color(green,Text I want in green)}}}.
>
> Which exports to
> This is \textcolor{green}{Text I want in green}.
>
> hth,
> Tom
>
> --
> Thomas S. Dye
> http://www.tsdye.com
>



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