[XeTeX] Diacritics in color

Aleksandr Andreev aleksandr.andreev at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 00:33:07 CET 2011


Khaled Hosny writes:

> Not entirely:
> http://robert.ocallahan.org/2006/10/partial-ligatures_24.html

The page reads:

> Basically it's a hack --- a ligature with N characters is divided into N vertical strips of equal width which I pretend are "pseudocharacters"

While that could work for a sans (or even a serif) font for something
like fi or ff or fl, it would be pretty hard to do for, say, a
cursive-type font (or even for italics). And it would most certainly
not work for something like Korean syllables.

Aleks


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