Color Pseudo-Character-Styles
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Character styles map by function an appearance to a piece of text

The Code

\usepackage{ifthen}
\providecommand{\textcolor}[2]{#2}
\renewcommand{\textcolor}[2]{%
\ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{blue}}{{\textsl{\textsf{#2}}}}{}% Baseball name
\ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{magenta}}{{\large{\texttt{#2}}}}{}% Computer guru name
\ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{magenta}\or\equal{#1}{blue}}{}{#2}% fallthrough
}

Example Text

Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa are carrying on the slugging tradition of Babe Ruth, Roger Maris and Mark McGwire. But who is carrying on the tradition of Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman and Larry Wall? Keep coding, and one day you might carry the eternal flame of free software.

The Result



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