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gnus: Formatting Fonts

 
 9.4.5 Formatting Fonts
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 There are specs for highlighting, and these are shared by all the format
 variables.  Text inside the ‘%(’ and ‘%)’ specifiers will get the
 special ‘mouse-face’ property set, which means that it will be
 highlighted (with ‘gnus-mouse-face’) when you put the mouse pointer over
 it.
 
    Text inside the ‘%{’ and ‘%}’ specifiers will have their normal faces
 set using ‘gnus-face-0’, which is ‘bold’ by default.  If you say ‘%1{’,
 you’ll get ‘gnus-face-1’ instead, and so on.  Create as many faces as
 you wish.  The same goes for the ‘mouse-face’ specs—you can say
 ‘%3(hello%)’ to have ‘hello’ mouse-highlighted with ‘gnus-mouse-face-3’.
 
    Text inside the ‘%<<’ and ‘%>>’ specifiers will get the special
 ‘balloon-help’ property set to ‘gnus-balloon-face-0’.  If you say
 ‘%1<<’, you’ll get ‘gnus-balloon-face-1’ and so on.  The
 ‘gnus-balloon-face-*’ variables should be either strings or symbols
 naming functions that return a string.  When the mouse passes over text
 with this property set, a balloon window will appear and display the
 string.  Please refer to Tooltips (emacs)Tooltips, (in Emacs) or
 the doc string of ‘balloon-help-mode’ (in XEmacs) for more information
 on this.  (For technical reasons, the guillemets have been approximated
 as ‘<<’ and ‘>>’ in this paragraph.)
 
    Here’s an alternative recipe for the group buffer:
 
      ;; Create three face types.
      (setq gnus-face-1 'bold)
      (setq gnus-face-3 'italic)
 
      ;; We want the article count to be in
      ;; a bold and green face.  So we create
      ;; a new face called ‘my-green-bold’.
      (copy-face 'bold 'my-green-bold)
      ;; Set the color.
      (set-face-foreground 'my-green-bold "ForestGreen")
      (setq gnus-face-2 'my-green-bold)
 
      ;; Set the new & fancy format.
      (setq gnus-group-line-format
            "%M%S%3{%5y%}%2[:%] %(%1{%g%}%)\n")
 
    I’m sure you’ll be able to use this scheme to create totally
 unreadable and extremely vulgar displays.  Have fun!
 
    Note that the ‘%(’ specs (and friends) do not make any sense on the
 mode-line variables.
 

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