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 :-)
>
> 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.
>

Are there any universal marks to charge the typeface used.  That can be more
general.  If I do something in emacs-lisp I would still need some form of
containment characters.


> Best regards,
>
> Juan Manuel
>