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

From: jon@hackcraft.net
Date: Tue Dec 09 2003 - 09:36:20 EST

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    > Your alternative suggestion using svg seemed to require the user to
    > handle the details of glyph positioning with specified horizontal
    > advances, which is surely a very strange requirement. Or maybe I have
    > misunderstood what was going on here.

    Perhaps so does yours. It isn't clear whether the CSS for .red-text would have
    to over-ride the default behaviour whereby an inline element like <span> is
    rendered by stacking it to the left or right (depending on text directionality)
    of the previous inline element or text node, or if the accent should go over
    the e by default.

    Briefly testing on a Win2000 box I found that IE6 ignored the styling on the
    accent, Mozilla1.4 didn't show the accent, and Opera7.2 displayed the red
    accent (tests had the same results with &#x0301; as with the combining
    character used directly). It isn't clear to me which, if any, of these are
    examples of conformant behaviour.

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