From: Bob_Hallissy@sil.org
Date: Wed Jun 15 2005 - 04:33:10 CDT
On 14/06/2005 19:37:47 John Hudson wrote:
>Take MS Word for example. You can make selections
>at the character level and apply colour
>to the glyphs that represent the selected
>characters. ...
>
>So a 'ligature-like' typeform that is actually
>composed of two glyphs, each representing
>one underlying character, should not pose
>a problem for colouring of the individual
>component characters, because although
>it *looks* like a ligature it is not different from
>any other sequence of two glyphs representing
>two characters. ...
>
>I don't have a test font that handles the lam_alif
>typeform in this way,
For one that does, try the OpenType fonts at
http://scripts.sil.org/ArabicFonts. In Word 2003, you can independently
color the lam and the alef of lam-alef
Bob
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