Hello,

Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> writes:
> Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>> On Friday, 24 Jul 2015 at 15:07, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>>> In an org document, I want to change the text colour of two words
>>> {\color{red} red line } to red in a sentence and the rest should be
>>> normal colour.
>>>
>>> I am missing something, as this changes the text colour for the rest
>>> of the sentence into red. How can I only change the colour of the
>>> two words?
>>
>> I usually do this type of thing as follows:
>>
>> #+latex: {\color{red}
>> red line
>> #+latex: }
>>
>> which allows for org-isms in the text.  Alternatively, you could do:
>>
>> ... @@latex:{\color{red} red line}@@
>>
>> if you don't need to use org syntax within the {}.
>
> Thanks - I will try it out on Monday. But it looks good.

Or, use a macro "color"...

I've begun writing such generic macros for basic and advanced formatting
(see [1]), though they are currently limited to the HTML backend:

  #+MACRO: color @@html:<span style="color: $1">$2</span>@@

I'll update that particular one in the coming hours or days.

Best regards,
Fabrice

Footnotes:

[1] https://github.com/fniessen/org-macros

-- 
Fabrice Niessen
Leuven, Belgium
http://www.pirilampo.org/


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