From: saqqara (saqqara@csi.com)
Date: Wed Aug 11 2004 - 05:54:42 CDT
>
> At 10:19 +0100 2004-08-11, saqqara wrote:
> >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.
>
> Out of scope. You can use markup to make characters red.
>
Of course but in the example, character has multiple colours (black and red)
> >Something I have a vested interest in with my own focus on Ancient
Egyptian
> >Hieroglyphs.
>
> Budge used to print a solid black line over red Coffin text and the like.
>
Yes, certainly the use of red for spells in Coffin texts, for instance, or
indeed most use of red ink in hieratic is properly a matter of semantics and
markup makes sense here.
However use of colour is a feature of Hieroglyphs and it would be entirely
reasonable for an Ancient Egyptian to want a full colour font for
applications such as Tomb decoration. Not that this has any ramifications
for Unicode, except to highlight the fact that such would be primarily a
font issue rather than character coding or markup. Practically, I don't
expect this to cut much ice with OpenType developments unless modern
examples in living scripts exist.
> The answer to the original question about black a with red macron is:
>
> You cheat, just like they did in the good old days of lead type. For
> that matter, just as they did when they had to put down one pen and
> pick up another.
>
> You can't expect the encoding to colour elements of precomposed glyphs.
If this form is used consistently throughout, then it is in fact a feature
of the font and in an ideal world fonts would support the bi-colour glyphs.
In an imperfect world, you must indeed expect to have to fudge the issue.
Bob Richmond
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