Hi Sharon,

I'm not sure I understand what is it that you are trying to do. But color
(or any other visual) is a feature of the exporter you use rather than of
Org-mode itself. For example, if you are exporting to HTML, you can use the
following at the top of the document:

#+html_head_extra: <style>body { color: white; background-color: black;
}</style>

For LaTeX export, you should be able to add the correct settings using #+
LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA.

Hope this helps,
--Diego


On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 2:37 PM Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
wrote:

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> In a book that I am writing, the text is white on black background which
> I like. But this is only the first draft, when its ready I shall go onto
> the second draft and then third draft, as many as necessary to polish
> the book before it goes to the beta-readers.
>
> So the first draft is white text on a black background, is it possible
> for all the second draft text to be in a different colour that I assign
> to it? And ditto third draft onwards?
>
> I envisage something like setting the text with 'M-x second-draft-text'
> which will then display the new text with its assigned colour. Which
> will also mean that the document will have multi-coloured text in it?
>
> Is this possible?
>
> And if it is possible, how do I do it please?
>
> Thanks
>   Sharon.
> - --
> Debian 10.2, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 27.1, org 9.3.7
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