preparing colored text

preparing colored text

[Jonathan Epstein]

I've read a lot about faces over the years, but there's something that
I just don't get: how do I prepare some text which is colored in a
specific way?

E.g., suppose I have the following text in my Emacs buffer (say, the
*Scratch* buffer):
  Here is some sample text colored in different ways

How can I make "Here is" red, "some sample" blue, "text" green,
"colored in" red, and "different ways" blue ?

The specific colors aren't important; an example using commonly
available faces such as:
font-lock-comment-face
font-lock-keyword-face
font-lock-warning-face

would be fine too.

Oh, I'm sort of wedded to Emacs 20 (I use 20.6.1), if there's an Emacs
20-compatible solution, that would be great.  Solutions that only work
on MS Windows would be OK too, although not optimal.

TIA,

Jonathan

Re: preparing colored text

[Kai Großjohann]

jaepstein_63@yahoo.com (Jonathan Epstein) writes:

> I've read a lot about faces over the years, but there's something that
> I just don't get: how do I prepare some text which is colored in a
> specific way?

Do you mean you want a mode where all occurrences of the word frumple
are in a specific color, or do you want something where you can point
at a word and say "make this blue"?

If the latter, investigate M-x enriched-mode RET.  And the M-g key.
(And C-<down-mouse-2>.)

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Re: preparing colored text

[Kevin Rodgers]

Jonathan Epstein wrote:

> I've read a lot about faces over the years, but there's something that
> I just don't get: how do I prepare some text which is colored in a
> specific way?
> 
> E.g., suppose I have the following text in my Emacs buffer (say, the
> *Scratch* buffer):
>   Here is some sample text colored in different ways
> 
> How can I make "Here is" red, "some sample" blue, "text" green,
> "colored in" red, and "different ways" blue ?
> 
> The specific colors aren't important; an example using commonly
> available faces such as:
> font-lock-comment-face
> font-lock-keyword-face
> font-lock-warning-face
> 
> would be fine too.

Global Bindings Starting With M-g:
key             binding
---             -------

M-g d		facemenu-set-default
M-g b		facemenu-set-bold
M-g i		facemenu-set-italic
M-g l		facemenu-set-bold-italic
M-g u		facemenu-set-underline
M-g o		facemenu-set-face


And see the "Formatted Text" and "Format Colors" nodes of the Emacs manual.

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Re: preparing colored text

[Bijan Soleymani]

jaepstein_63@yahoo.com (Jonathan Epstein) writes:

> I've read a lot about faces over the years, but there's something that
> I just don't get: how do I prepare some text which is colored in a
> specific way?
> 
> E.g., suppose I have the following text in my Emacs buffer (say, the
> *Scratch* buffer):
>   Here is some sample text colored in different ways
> 
> How can I make "Here is" red, "some sample" blue, "text" green,
> "colored in" red, and "different ways" blue ?

If your version of emacs has it, you should probably try enriched-mode.

M-x enriched mode

Then select the text you want to be red.

Then from the menu go in Edit -> Text Properties -> Foreground Color

and enter red.

Repeat for all other colors.


Hope that helps,
Bijan

Re: preparing colored text

[Colin Marquardt]

jaepstein_63@yahoo.com (Jonathan Epstein) writes:

> I've read a lot about faces over the years, but there's something that
> I just don't get: how do I prepare some text which is colored in a
> specific way?

Take a look at 
  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CategoryFaces

enriched-mode has been mentioned, but maybe you want something like 
  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HighlightTemporarily

HTH,
  Colin

Re: preparing colored text

[Kai Großjohann]

jaepstein_63@yahoo.com (Jonathan Epstein) writes:

>  (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*ColorExample*"
>       (save-excursion
> 	(set-buffer standard-output)
> 	(setq truncate-lines t)
> 	(insert "here is some sample red text, green text, and flowery blue
> prose")
> 	(put-text-property 20 29 'face 'font-lock-warning-face)
> 	(put-text-property 31 42 'face 'font-lock-type-face)
> 	(put-text-property 47 65 'face 'font-lock-function-name-face)
> 	)) 

(insert (propertize "warning" 'face 'font-lock-warning-face))

... easier to maintain in case the strings change :-)

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Re: preparing colored text

[Jonathan Epstein]

Thanks for all the responses ... sorry if I was unclear.  I meant
doing this under program control.  Here's what I came up with
(copy-hack from faces.el) ... thanks again.

Jonathan


 (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*ColorExample*"
      (save-excursion
	(set-buffer standard-output)
	(setq truncate-lines t)
	(insert "here is some sample red text, green text, and flowery blue
prose")
	(put-text-property 20 29 'face 'font-lock-warning-face)
	(put-text-property 31 42 'face 'font-lock-type-face)
	(put-text-property 47 65 'face 'font-lock-function-name-face)
	)) 

jaepstein_63@yahoo.com (Jonathan Epstein) wrote in message news:<27e4d2e8.0304020942.52ae37ad@posting.google.com>...
> I've read a lot about faces over the years, but there's something that
> I just don't get: how do I prepare some text which is colored in a
> specific way?
> 
> E.g., suppose I have the following text in my Emacs buffer (say, the
> *Scratch* buffer):
>   Here is some sample text colored in different ways
> 
> How can I make "Here is" red, "some sample" blue, "text" green,
> "colored in" red, and "different ways" blue ?
> 
> The specific colors aren't important; an example using commonly
> available faces such as:
> font-lock-comment-face
> font-lock-keyword-face
> font-lock-warning-face
> 
> would be fine too.
> 
> Oh, I'm sort of wedded to Emacs 20 (I use 20.6.1), if there's an Emacs
> 20-compatible solution, that would be great.  Solutions that only work
> on MS Windows would be OK too, although not optimal.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Jonathan

Re: preparing colored text

[Matthew Kennedy]

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

>
> (insert (propertize "warning" 'face 'font-lock-warning-face))
>
> ... easier to maintain in case the strings change :-)
>

Kai, this was my first attempt also. I copied this example into
*scratch* and evaluated it, it appears to just insert "warning"
without changing any text properties.

I ran M-: (get-text-property (point) 'face) with the point on the
inserted warning text. That expression returns nil. I'm confused
(like always)...

BTW, where'd you find Oort 0.18? :D

Matt

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Matthew Kennedy

Re: preparing colored text

[Oliver Scholz]

Matthew Kennedy <mbkennedy@austin.rr.com> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>>
>> (insert (propertize "warning" 'face 'font-lock-warning-face))
>>
>> ... easier to maintain in case the strings change :-)
>>
>
> Kai, this was my first attempt also. I copied this example into
> *scratch* and evaluated it, it appears to just insert "warning"
> without changing any text properties.
[...]

Probably you have font-lock turned on. It removes all "foreign" text
properties. Try it in a buffer without font-lock, for example in
text-mode.

In CVS Emacs you can use something like this

(insert (propertize "lirum larum" 'font-lock-face
		    'font-lock-warning-face))

even in buffers with font-lock.


    Oliver
-- 
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Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!

Re: preparing colored text

[Matthew Kennedy]

Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:

> Probably you have font-lock turned on. It removes all "foreign" text
> properties. Try it in a buffer without font-lock, for example in
> text-mode.
>
> In CVS Emacs you can use something like this
>
> (insert (propertize "lirum larum" 'font-lock-face
> 		    'font-lock-warning-face))

Ahhh... that was it! Thanks,

Matt
-- 
Matthew Kennedy

Re: preparing colored text

[Lee Sau Dan]

>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Kennedy <mbkennedy@austin.rr.com> writes:

    Matthew> Kai, this was my first attempt also. I copied this
    Matthew> example into *scratch* and evaluated it, it appears to
    Matthew> just insert "warning" without changing any text
    Matthew> properties.

Did you disable font-lock-mode in *scratch* before trying it out?



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E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee

Re: preparing colored text

[Kai Großjohann]

Matthew Kennedy <mbkennedy@austin.rr.com> writes:

> BTW, where'd you find Oort 0.18? :D

It's the CVS version.
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