Aloha Gabe, Gabe Becker <becker.g...@gene.com> writes:
> orgmode developers and power-users, > > I'd like to be able to declare custom entities (apologies if I'm using that > term incorrectly) within the text of an orgmode document which I can > specify custom formatting for when my .org is exported, e.g. to PDF or HTML. > > I have a background in Docbook, so the analogue there would be defining a > custom xml tag and then extending the XSL files to handle it as desired. > Please see the following snippet: > > > * section title > > Here is some text, but I want [specialthing: this bit here] to be formatted > differently than [newanddifferent: this other big over here]. > > > Where I would have defined specific custom formatting rules for > "specialthing" and "newanddifferent" type entities. > > Is there a way to do this in orgmode? If not, it seems like it would be a > very useful feature (at least to me:) ). Note: I don't care about the > syntax as long as the result is the same. > > Thanks for your help, > ~G > -- > Computational Biologist > Genentech Research > orgmode developers and power-users, Macros, links, derived back-ends -- so many ways to achieve what you want. Here is another: @@html:<b>@@bold text@@html:</b>@@ #+HTML: Literal HTML code for export #+BEGIN_HTML All lines between these markers are exported literally #+END_HTML For pdf export via LaTeX there are @@latex, #+LATEX, and #+BEGIN_LATEX ... #+END_LATEX. hth, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com