Thank you (Nick and Tom). Both the solutions above worked. Regards, Chai On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote: > Aloha Chai, > > Chaitanya Krishna writes: > > > Hello all, > > > > I would like to have some text in color when I export my org document to > > latex. > > > > I tried this: > > ... > > #+latex_header: \usepackage{color} > > \textcolor{red}{Text I want in red} > > One way is with a macro, e.g., > > #+MACRO: red \textcolor{red}{$1} > > This is {{{red(Text I want in red)}}}. > > Which exports to > > This is \textcolor{red}{Text I want in red}. > > > Or, more generally, > #+MACRO: color \textcolor{$1}{$2} > > This is {{{color(green,Text I want in green)}}}. > > Which exports to > This is \textcolor{green}{Text I want in green}. > > hth, > Tom > > -- > Thomas S. Dye > http://www.tsdye.com > -- 42