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

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 16:46:38 EST

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    On 08/12/2003 11:35, Peter Constable wrote:

    > ...
    >
    >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.
    >
    >
    Agreed. But now we are told that the latter is illegal XML because a
    combining mark is not permitted (by XML, not by Unicode) after <span>. 

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