Re: text color + highlight

["Robert Klein" <roklein@roklein.de>]

Am 09.08.2010, 08:28 Uhr, schrieb Carsten Dominik  
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com>:

> Nope, I am against this syntax.  If we introduce a more general syntax,
> then it should be done in the way Samuel proposed.  WHich means
> we firs get a keyword indtroducing the piece, and then properties.
>
> Like
>
>     $[style :color red the red text]
>
> or
>
>     $[face :color :italic t red the red text]
>
> Something like the $ before "[" also would seem critical to disambiguate
> from other uses of "[".


I'd prefer this kind of syntax, too.  Btw, shouldn't the syntax be:
    $[face :color red :italic t the red italic text]

?? (i.e. the red following the :color keyword, not the ':italic t')

I didn't find a canonical way to make a paragraph or a longer text passage  
italic



>
> However, I am not too excited about extra syntax to get this kind of  
> thing.
> Would not oppose it, but probably never use it.
>
> - Carsten
>