From: Mete Kural (metek@touchtonecorp.com)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 09:28:30 EST
Being able to color diacritics and other characters in rendering would be great. We are trying to develop some tools to research the Quran and one of the tools is a sophisticated search engine that can search for substrings and display the search results while emphasizing the searched substrings with a different color in the search results text. It turns out that this is not possible if calligraphic fonts are used so we are leaning towards other alternatives that color coding. But if you can share any ideas on how to do color coding even if calligraphic fonts are used, that would be great.
-Mete
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Peter Constable" <petercon@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:35:24 -0800
>> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
>On Behalf
>> Of Peter Kirk
>
>
>> And what if you want to colour just the dot on i? Or just the crossbar
>> on a t?
>
>Use Illustrator or Photoshop or Freehand or whatever your favourite
>graphics application is.
>
>
>
>> A very tentative suggestion for some glue: a character which can take
>> combining marks but whose function is to throw those marks back on to
>> the preceding base character, preceding any markup.
>
>I see no particular value in this. The font rendering of <span>base
>diacritic</span> should be exactly the same as that for
><span>base</span><span>diacritic</span> provided the font
>characteristics are the same or do not affect metrics.
>
>
>
>Peter
>
>Peter Constable
>Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
>Microsoft Windows Division
>
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Mon Dec 08 2003 - 18:10:31 EST