On Thursday, 6 Aug 2020 at 14:35, Bo Grimes wrote:
> It feels to me like this should be possible because syntax
> highlighting mixes colors.
hi-lock-mode may do what the OP wanted with some careful insertion of
tags in the document, maybe in the form of comment lines.
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: Eric S Fraga via Emac
It feels to me like this should be possible because syntax highlighting
mixes colors. I am woefully inadequate to help, but I feel like
mentioning this might spark a guru's imagination.
I remember years ago when I used Notepad++ on Windows it allowed
user-defined syntax highlighting, and I di
This would not be too easy to achieve.
One way I can see it happening is if you keep your manuscript in a VC
system like git, and you tag the different draft versions. Then you use
the VC diff machinery to find the diffs between the versions, and
somehow use that to put color overlays or text prop
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Thanks for replying Diego.
The text of the book will not be exported into latex or any other
forward-type document. I need the coloured text purely for my own
interest and usage. When, and if, I do export it to latex, LibreOffice
doc or whatever, i
Hi Sharon,
I'm not sure I understand what is it that you are trying to do. But color
(or any other visual) is a feature of the exporter you use rather than of
Org-mode itself. For example, if you are exporting to HTML, you can use the
following at the top of the document:
#+html_head_extra: body
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In a book that I am writing, the text is white on black background which
I like. But this is only the first draft, when its ready I shall go onto
the second draft and then third draft, as many as necessary to polish
the book before it goes to the be
