gnus: Article Fontisizing
3.18.2 Article Fontisizing
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People commonly add emphasis to words in news articles by writing things
like ‘_this_’ or ‘*this*’ or ‘/this/’. Gnus can make this look nicer by
running the article through the ‘W e’ (‘gnus-article-emphasize’)
command.
How the emphasis is computed is controlled by the
‘gnus-emphasis-alist’ variable. This is an alist where the first
element is a regular expression to be matched. The second is a number
that says what regular expression grouping is used to find the entire
emphasized word. The third is a number that says what regexp grouping
should be displayed and highlighted. (The text between these two
groupings will be hidden.) The fourth is the face used for
highlighting.
(setq gnus-emphasis-alist
'(("_\\(\\w+\\)_" 0 1 gnus-emphasis-underline)
("\\*\\(\\w+\\)\\*" 0 1 gnus-emphasis-bold)))
By default, there are seven rules, and they use the following faces:
‘gnus-emphasis-bold’, ‘gnus-emphasis-italic’, ‘gnus-emphasis-underline’,
‘gnus-emphasis-bold-italic’, ‘gnus-emphasis-underline-italic’,
‘gnus-emphasis-underline-bold’, and
‘gnus-emphasis-underline-bold-italic’.
If you want to change these faces, you can either use ‘M-x
customize’, or you can use ‘copy-face’. For instance, if you want to
make ‘gnus-emphasis-italic’ use a red face instead, you could say
something like:
(copy-face 'red 'gnus-emphasis-italic)
If you want to highlight arbitrary words, you can use the
‘gnus-group-highlight-words-alist’ variable, which uses the same syntax
as ‘gnus-emphasis-alist’. The ‘highlight-words’ group parameter (
Group Parameters) can also be used.
Customizing Articles, for how to fontize articles
automatically.
Info Catalog
gnus: Article Highlighting
gnus: Article Treatment
gnus: Article Hiding