Playing down the text in org-mode

[fatiparty--- via "General discussions about Org-mode." <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>]

Jan 14, 2022, 07:22 by jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu:

> You might check out my scimax-editmarks package. You can create bracket syntax like that which can be fontified, e.g. made smaller, lighter, etc. to de-emphasize. It is not org-syntax, and uses a pre-processing step on export, but if all you want is visual syntax in org-mode, something like this might be what you are looking for. The details are in this video description, and you can see what it looks like and does here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBmvBkpzixs
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> John
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You make a good case on the reasons why one would like to have text that is somewhat obscured.
Great functionality if it gets to be introduced in official org-mode.


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> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 2:16 PM fatiparty--- via General discussions about Org-mode. <> emacs-orgmode@gnu.org> > wrote:
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>> Jan 14, 2022, 06:50 by>> maciaschain@posteo.net>> :
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>>  > Hi,
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>>  > fatiparty--- via "General discussions about Org-mode." writes:
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>>  >> Is there anything to perform the opposite, playing down the text?
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>>  > Are you referring to nested emphasis, something like in LaTeX
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>>  > \emph{foo \emph{bar} baz}
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>>  > = foo...baz in italic; bar in normal font?
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>>  > Best regards,
>>  > Juan Manuel
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>>  I am referring to an org file.  Suppose I have a file >> doc.org <http://doc.org>
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>>  cat >> doc.org <http://doc.org>
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>>  a  celebration that started in the 4th Century [IV] in the Southern Levant
>>   [ _a geographical region that corresponds to present-day Israel and Palestine_ ].
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>>  org-mode in emacs will emphasize by underlining geographical detail.  I would like 
>>  to have a way to play down the text rather than emphasizing the text.  It would be 
>>  beneficial to have other bracketing characters for doing the opposite of emphasizing.
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