{"id":12593,"date":"2024-11-21T11:14:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T16:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12593"},"modified":"2024-11-21T11:14:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T16:14:25","slug":"styling-text-in-org-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12593","title":{"rendered":"Styling Text In Org Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nAs most of you know, I follow Charles Choir’s work and often use and recommend his apps. I especially like his Casual Apps<\/a>, which generally make dealing with little used features easier. I was, therefore, eager to read his latest announcement about Styling Text via Keyboard in Org and Markdown<\/a>. I have to admit, the whole thing left me scratching my head.\n<\/p>\n

\nWhen I read the headline, I thought, “What do you mean via keyboard<\/i>? Isn’t that what happens right now?” It turns out that what he means is specifying the styling markup with a word\u2014“bold”, “italic”, “code”, etc\u2014rather than the single character markup that Org already uses.\n<\/p>\n

\nI’m not sure why anyone would want to do that. I suppose it’s marginally easier to remember “bold” than it is to remember “*” but not much. I can’t remember ever<\/i> having a hard time remembering the single characters. Of course, different strokes for different folks as the hippies were fond of saying so I don’t really object to using the words instead of the characters.\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat I do<\/i> object to his having to interrupt my writing flow to bring up a menu for the styling. Take a look at the video to see what I mean. One his goals was to have his system figure out what to apply the styling to based on the position of the point. With the current system, I get to determine that exactly how I want it. I just surround the text I want styled with the appropriate markup character. Yes, there are some edge cases but they never get in my way and even if they did, it’s usually fixable by adjusting a regex.\n<\/p>\n

\nStill, if you’re one of the people who like specifying your markup in longhand, Choi’s system looks worth checking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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