From: fatiparty--- via "General discussions about Org-mode." <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Playing down the text in org-mode
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 23:27:43 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MtKXSf2--3-2@tutanota.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtjzti8b.fsf@gmail.com>
Jan 14, 2022, 09:27 by theophilusx@gmail.com:
>
> fatiparty--- via "General discussions about Org-mode." <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> In org-mode one can use the emphasizing tags
>>
>> *word* /word/ _word_
>>
>> Is there anything to perform the opposite, playing down the text?
>>
>
>
> No, there are no syntax elements in org mode to do this.
>
> Part of the challenge here is that de-emphasis or 'play down' is not well
> defined. Traditionally, I think the way you handled adding text which
> was considered important enough to include, but perhaps tangential or
> less important was to use a footnote or margin note. The point of
> emphasis in text is to draw the readers eye (and attention) to
> something. It is difficult to do the opposite. Furthermore, most
> techniques used to try and do this really just amount to making the text
> harder to read, which doesn't seem very beneficial for those readers who
> want that additional information.
>
My intention is rather to makes tho text look different from any highlighting
on normal text rather than making it harder to read. Customarily, I use bold
for all text, making highlighting not standing out much.
I would need the "play down" thing for documentary scripts, so they can
be distinguished from the "line's actor field". So playing down is not the right
word for this.
I am playing with foreground colours and height, see what happens.
Something similar to footnote perhaps something similar to
[mg: marginal text here]
With some elisp code to define a face for such occurrence.
> Personally, I prefer footnotes, asides, margin notes over including less
> important text within the important text because even if the text is
> somehow marked visually to indicate it is less important, I still have
> to scan it when reading. A footnote on the other hand tells me there is
> additional information available if I want to read it and all I had to
> scan was a letter. This is also why I prefer Oxford over Harvard
> referencing styles.
>
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2022-01-13 18:27 Playing down the text in org-mode fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-01-13 18:50 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-01-13 19:04 ` John Kitchin
2022-01-13 19:19 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-01-13 19:31 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
[not found] ` <87bl0feahc.fsf@posteo.net-MtJnHBm----2>
2022-01-13 19:15 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-01-13 19:22 ` John Kitchin
2022-01-13 19:42 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-01-13 19:53 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-01-13 20:20 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-01-13 20:51 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-01-14 1:50 ` Ihor Radchenko
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2022-01-13 20:53 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-01-13 21:39 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-01-14 9:41 ` Eric S Fraga
[not found] ` <874k66irh4.fsf@ucl.ac.uk-MtMyJM6----2>
2022-01-14 13:03 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-01-14 13:30 ` Eric S Fraga
[not found] ` <87o84efnqk.fsf@ucl.ac.uk-MtNobqT----2>
2022-01-14 13:44 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-01-14 14:13 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-01-14 19:27 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-01-14 20:00 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-01-14 20:25 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
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2022-01-14 20:45 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-01-14 20:57 ` Juan Manuel Macías
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2022-01-14 21:00 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-01-14 21:16 ` Juan Manuel Macías
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2022-01-14 22:01 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-01-14 22:23 ` Juan Manuel Macías
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2022-01-14 22:44 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-01-14 21:40 ` Tim Cross
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2022-01-13 22:45 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-01-13 23:08 ` Juan Manuel Macías
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2022-01-13 19:58 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
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2022-01-13 19:42 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
2022-01-13 21:27 ` Tim Cross
2022-01-13 22:27 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode. [this message]
2022-01-13 22:35 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
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2022-01-14 2:04 ` fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode.
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