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preceding text \special{color push rgb 1 0 0} red and more red \special{color pop} following text<br>
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how exactly would \beginspecial and \endspecial be used, and what is their effect? I don't think I understand yet, sorry.<br><font color="#888888">
</font></blockquote><div><br><br>Ahmad Yazdipour today replied and he actually sent the patch for implementing \semihalign (I alread talked to you about that with all the details and If I recall correctly, you said "if there is a patch, you consider adding this primitive to XeTeX".) , \beginspecial and \endspecial. I have attached the code with this email.<br>
<br>and this is what he said (I would forward his original email to the list but since it is written in Persian, I send the English translation of it.<br><br>"\beginspecial has two arguments, one of the argument is about the start of special and the other argument is about the end of special \endspecial does not have any arguments and its argument is the second argument of \beginspecial. So in your example \beginspecial and \endspecial would be used in the following way:<br>
<br><br>preceding text \beginspecial{color push rgb 1 0 0}{color pop} red and more
red \endspecial following text would work like your example<br><br><br>Therefore in the lines scan algorithm, in the end of each line, the argument of \endspecial (second argument of \beginspecial) and in the beginning of next line, the argument of \beginspecial (first argument) will be added."<br>
<br>So Jonathan, this is all the details and implementation attached with this email, Can you please once you see it and look at it, reply about your decisions? I have tried my best so that issues will get fixed but the rest is up to yourself.<br>
<br>Best wishes,<br>Vafa Khalighi<br></div></div><br></div>