[5751#8] How to factorise show rules for some text?

[gezepi]

@ensko wrote a great post about this topic here:

How can I create show rules in a loop?

(Credit for this answer goes to @laurmaedje who wrote it here, here, and a few times earlier on Discord, and to @Eric for recommending fold().) There is a general and two more specific ways to do this: using a loop or equivalent to generate and apply multiple show rules using regular expressions with alternatives (|) using selector.or() since the specific ways cover the most common use cases and are also better performance-wise, let’s start with these: Regular expressions The first two cas…

Using that post as a guide, something like this should work for your case:

#let words = ("ipsum", "sit")
#show regex(words.join("|")): set text(red)//Change font here

#lorem(10)