Re: Combining across markup? (Was: RE: sign for anti-neutrino - gree k nu with diacritical line aboveworkaround ?)

From: D. Starner (shalesller@writeme.com)
Date: Tue Aug 10 2004 - 13:35:14 CDT

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    Philipp Reichmuth <reichmuth@web.de> writes:

    > Jon Hanna schrieb:
    > > The W3C Character Model does not, or will not since it's not yet a
    > > Recommendation, allow text nodes or attribute values to begin with defective
    > > combining character sequences.
    >
    > What am I supposed do when I need a black a with a red macron? Or for a
    > less obscure example, an Arabic text with the letters correctly ligated,
    > in black, and the vowel marks in another colour, such as in practically
    > *any* printed edition of the Koran?

    Use PDF files, or images. The W3C Character Model is not the end all and be
    all of Unicode text processing, but there's a certain limit to what HTML will
    do. 

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