Re: preparing colored text

[Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>]

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