Very nice.

However, I'd like to write a function that toggles the color value (without
recourse to the customize menu), since it would be useful to highlight the
footnotes from time to time.

After some tests, it is clear I also disliked the underlining.

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> > Reading an org-file. I should note, it is the highlighting that is the
> > problem, not the footnote itself. If I could somehow toggle it to the
> > color of the text, that would solve my problem.
>
> Put your cursor on the footnote.  Then do
>
>     C-u C-x =
>
> In the resulting buffer, toward the end, you will see something like
> this.
>
>     ,----
>     | There are text properties here:
>     |   face                 org-footnote
>     |   font-lock-fontified  t
>     |   font-lock-multiline  t
>     |   fontified            t
>     |   help-echo            "Footnote reference"
>     |   keymap               [Show]
>     |   mouse-face           highlight
>     |   org-category         "test-new"
>     |   org-no-flyspell      t
>     `----
>
> Click on the face property (which is `org-footnote').  Click on
> "customize this face" link.  Change the face foreground color to
> whatever you want.
>
> Or
>
> A fast way to do that would be
>     M-x customize-face RET org-footnote RET
>
> You can also try
>     M-x customize-group RET org-faces RET
> --
>