1 #+TITLE: Org appearance
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5 This page is about customizing the appearance of Org-mode.
7 * Customizing Org appearance
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12 To customize all aspects of Org appearance use
15 =M-x customize-group RET org-font-lock RET=
18 Here you will find several options that can be chaged, and a further
19 link to a page for customizing [[id:f47abcd0-e31e-4b23-87db-d916d21665ad][Org-mode faces]].
21 ** Customize Org-mode faces
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26 A "face" is the term emacs uses to refer to the font and colour of
27 some text (as well as other features such as underlining etc).
29 Customizing Org faces is straightforward:
32 =M-x customize-group RET org-faces RET=
35 You can also customize faces on the fly by just calling the
36 =customize-face= command with the cursor on the face you want to
39 ** Hiding leading stars
40 the variable org-hide-leading-stars can be configured so that only
41 one star is shown at the start of each heading. Many people find
42 that this give the org buffer a cleaner appearance. This can be set
43 in the Org Font Lock customize group as explained above in
44 [[id:849d13ea-d2ca-45e8-ac49-ff7586c119cb][Customizing Org appearance]].
46 ** Customizing the title, date, author and email lines.
48 The title, date and author information for an org document are
49 specified using the special keywords =#+TITLE:=, =#+DATE=,
50 =#+AUTHOR=, =#+EMAIL=.
52 By default, title, author, date and email lines appear in dark blue
53 with the initial keywords greyed out. The title is in a larger font
54 than the others. To change this, customize the faces
58 - org-document-info-keyword
60 In addition, the variable org-hidden-keywords can be used to make the
61 corresponding keywords disappear.
63 ** Using only odd outline levels
64 The variable org-odd-levels-only can be used so that Org only uses
65 odd-numbered outline levels. Again, some people prefer this, finding
66 that the Org buffer looks less cluttered.
67 * Org-mode ready color-themes
69 A popular way of customizing Emacs colors is to use the color-theme
70 package (see [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ColorTheme][color-theme emacswiki page]].)
72 Here is a list of color themes that are aware of Org:
74 ** [[http://www.brockman.se/software/zenburn/zenburn.el][zenburn.el]] (maintained by Daniel Brockman)
76 [[file:../img/screenshots/org-mode-zenburn.jpg][file:../img/screenshots/thumbs/org-mode-zenburn.png]]
85 * Org config :noexport:
86 #+OPTIONS: H:3 num:nil toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t TeX:t LaTeX:t skip:nil d:(HIDE) tags:not-in-toc
87 #+STARTUP: align fold nodlcheck hidestars oddeven lognotestate
88 #+SEQ_TODO: TODO(t) INPROGRESS(i) WAITING(w@) | DONE(d) CANCELED(c@)
89 #+TAGS: Write(w) Update(u) Fix(f) Check(c) noexport
91 #+EMAIL: bzg AT altern DOT org