From: saqqara (saqqara@csi.com)
Date: Wed Aug 11 2004 - 04:19:41 CDT
This is one example where colour support in fonts would be useful. A useful
addition to the OpenType specifications if any readers here have influence
on such matters.
Something I have a vested interest in with my own focus on Ancient Egyptian
Hieroglyphs.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philipp Reichmuth" <reichmuth@web.de>
To: "Jon Hanna" <jon@hackcraft.net>; <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: Combining across markup? (Was: RE: sign for anti-neutrino - g
ree k nu with diacritical line aboveworkaround ?)
>
> Jon Hanna schrieb:
> > The W3C Character Model does not, or will not since it's not yet a
> > Recommendation, allow text nodes or attribute values to begin with
defective
> > combining character sequences.
>
> What am I supposed do when I need a black a with a red macron? Or for a
> less obscure example, an Arabic text with the letters correctly ligated,
> in black, and the vowel marks in another colour, such as in practically
> *any* printed edition of the Koran?
>
> Philipp
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