From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 14:35:24 EST
> 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
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