Jan 14, 2022, 09:27 by theophil...@gmail.com:
> > fatiparty--- via "General discussions about Org-mode." > <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org> writes: > >> In org-mode one can use the emphasizing tags >> >> *word* /word/ _word_ >> >> Is there anything to perform the opposite, playing down the text? >> > > > No, there are no syntax elements in org mode to do this. > > Part of the challenge here is that de-emphasis or 'play down' is not well > defined. Traditionally, I think the way you handled adding text which > was considered important enough to include, but perhaps tangential or > less important was to use a footnote or margin note. The point of > emphasis in text is to draw the readers eye (and attention) to > something. It is difficult to do the opposite. Furthermore, most > techniques used to try and do this really just amount to making the text > harder to read, which doesn't seem very beneficial for those readers who > want that additional information. > > Personally, I prefer footnotes, asides, margin notes over including less > important text within the important text because even if the text is > somehow marked visually to indicate it is less important, I still have > to scan it when reading. A footnote on the other hand tells me there is > additional information available if I want to read it and all I had to > scan was a letter. This is also why I prefer Oxford over Harvard > referencing styles. > A problem with footnote is that only the [fn:1] gets coloured. [fn:1] This is a footnote Have also noticed that when using comment lines, the comment text does not show much difference from normal text when using a dark background. # Some details here On a light background, the text is shown in grey (which helps distinguish text from comments, as with programming languages).
