Playing down the text in org-mode

[fatiparty--- via "General discussions about Org-mode." <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>]

Jan 14, 2022, 08:20 by maciaschain@posteo.net:

> fatiparty@tutanota.com writes:
>
>> I am discussing something slightly different.
>>
>> Here is normal text within -which there is some understated text- before continuing with normal text.
>>
>
> Yes, it seems that I have understood you horribly wrong, sorry for the
> noise (it must be the effects of the third modern vaccine that they gave
> me yesterday :-)
>

I'm sure you'll do great.


> In short, what you want is that a part of the text is "obscured" in some
> way with respect to the main body text, and you would like Org to have
> some marks for it. I see an important basic problem: there are many
> procedures to reduce the reading importance of a text: simply pass that
> text to a footnote, use dashes, parentheses or brackets, put the text in
> a smaller size (which is the usual when these passages are isolated
> paragraphs). I think it is better to define all these questions in the
> output formats, through post-processing, and in Org use macros, custom
> links, special blocks, the procedure that John has shared here, etc. But a
> "universal" no-emphasis mark doesn't seem viable to me, IMHO.
>

The basic problem with footnote is the requirement for the footnote marker
to be incolumn 0, no indentation allowed.
Are there other altornatives?  Any tags to change colour.  Would need some examples.


> Best regards,
> Juan Manuel
>