Text effects in room names

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I’m trying to do a basic text effect in a room name: One word should be a specific color. For the Z-machine I’ve done this:

Include Basic Screen Effects by Emily Short.

There is a room called West of House. "You are standing in an open field west of a white [green letters]house[default letters], with a boarded front door."
The printed name is "West of [green letters]House[default letters]".

This doesn’t really work, since the status line is apparently inverted and uses the background color for the text and vice verse. In other words, in the status line, the background is green instead of the letters.

Can I set the status line room name separately from the printed name, so that I can set its background color to green rather than the letter color?

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You can have a different rule for printing the name of something in the status line using-

Rule for printing the name of xxxxxxx while constructing the status line:

See Documentation 18.23

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Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!