[XeTeX] \beginL and colour

[Hans Hagen]

Jonathan Kew wrote:

> Incidentally, I'm wondering if I should loosen up the font name parsing 
> to allow colon and semicolon to be interchangeable, so that you could 
> always add ":ATTRIBUTE" at the end of an existing font spec, without 
> having to worry whether this is the first attribute being added to a raw 
> font name.

that makes sense, since then one can construct macro bases color definitions on 
fonts; how frozen is this info? i can imagine that the color assignment can be 
done outside the font mechanism (e.g. on the current font);

\font\somefont=":ATTRIBUTE:..."

H

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