Hello all,

Let me begin by saying thank you for this extremely versatile tool!

I've been dabbling with using Pandoc to go from Markdown to Powerpoint. The 
layouts from a specified reference doc are very pleasant to work, but so 
far I have been unsuccessful in finding a way how highlighted text is to be 
rendered in the PPTX. Specifically, I would be looking for a way to 
highlight text by changing its color in the output.

I saw that d0a895ac [1] principally implements colored text output for 
syntax highlighting, but as far as I understand there is no way of using 
this from the AST? (My ideal scenario would writing a custom AST filter 
that turns bold and italic highlights into colored spans.)

Another idea I had was to leverage the user-definable accent colors from 
the reference doc, so that .accent1 to .accent6 could be used as classes, 
similarly to how underline works today.

I am not fluent in Haskell, but I'd appreciate if someone had some other 
ideas - or comments on the feasibility of those changes? (I'd be happy to 
sponsor someone to implement them.)

Thanks & best
Gottfried

[1] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/commit/d0a895acee371b13a9c31873c10dd124e04564d1

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