According to the http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22937393/emacs-lisp-prettify-symbols-mode-for-latexby using font-lock-add-keywords, I can display the latin symbols instead of the English word like \alpha without changing the real contents. It is pretty great. Then a good idea came to my brain, which is: Can i use this feature to display the caption and label of the table and image rather than headers which holds at least three lines? If it can be accomplished, which will make the article very compact and easier to read: Before re-display : #+CAPTION: caption #+ATTR_LaTeX: :align |c|c| #+LABEL: table:label | name | value | |------+-------| | tony | 30 | After re-display: table:label caption | name | value | |------+-------| | tony | 30 | I tried to alter some part of the code using regexp search to find the headers and capture the caption and label contents, and test to re-display the matched contents to test: (defvar pretty-alist (cl-pairlis '("#\\+CAPTION: \\(.+$\\)\n#\\+ATTR_LaTeX.+\n#\\+LABEL: \\(.+$\\)") ("test"))) (defun pretty-things() (mapc (lambda (x) (let ((word (car x)) (char (cdr x))) (font-lock-add-keywords nil `((,(concat "\\(^\\|[^a-zA-Z0-9]\\)\\(" word "\\)[a-zA-Z]") (0 (progn (decompose-region (match-beginning 2) (match-end 2)) nil))))) (font-lock-add-keywords nil `((,(concat "\\(^\\|[^a-zA-Z0-9]\\)\\(" word "\\)[^a-zA-Z]") (0 (progn (compose-region (1- (match-beginning 2)) (match-end 2) ,char) nil))))))) pretty-alist)) the results are below: test | name | value | |------+-------| | tony | 30 | Then i tried to change the "test" to "\\2 \\1", error of 'no function \\2 \\1' appeared. It seems like that the the second parameter of cl-pairlis must be a function. I am a pretty beginner to elisp, so it is very hard for me to solve this problem, then i decide to ask for help here. If it can be accomplished, it will be really a progress to read and write articles. Thanks very much. Any help will be very appreciated. Best regard!