[XeTeX] additional beginL endL nodes in math

[David Carlisle]

On 17 April 2015 at 15:26, Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
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> David Carlisle wrote:
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>> possibly but in the interests of keeping divergence of tex-related
>> engines to a minimum
>> as a first approach (if different approaches were being considered)
>> I'd look to what luatex
>> is doing, where colour and directionality can be specified without
>> introducing new nodes
>> colour being an attribute of the font for example.
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> Colour is already an attribute of the font in XeTeX, is it not ?
> The syntax certainly suggests that it is :
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>         \font \thisfont = "Tw Cen MT Condensed":color=968A4D scaled 955
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> for example.
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> ** Phil.
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yes but the latex color package doesn't know that (who wrote that
package, anyway)

David