Re: Coloured diacritics (Was: Transcoding Tamil in the presence of markup)

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 11:17:30 EST

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    Andrew C. West <andrewcwest@alumni.princeton.edu>

    > ... and similar stroke-by-stroke incremental diagrams showing how to
    > write CJK ideographs are even more common in (Chinese, Japanese,
    > etc.) pedagogical texts intended for both native children and for
    > foreigners. I've also seen such diagrams in Tibetan pedagogical texts,
    > and imagine you could find them for almost any modern script, so I
    > hope no-one's thinking of proposing a set of semi-composed Latin
    > letters (with combining directional arrows), or we'll be sliding down
    > a long, slippery slope.

    Proposing special glyphs to enable coloring of individual characters
    within a precomposed glyph wouldn't be much different.

    -Doug Ewell
     Fullerton, California
     http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/



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