At 03:48 AM 1/8/2004, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>The current OpenType specification already has a minimal support for color:
>glyphs can be marked with a property indicating that the rendering software
>should display them in an alternate color.
This is not accurate. The OpenType GDEF table specification does not
include a property for colour; rather, the 'mark' property has been used by
MS Office in order, optionally, to colour diacritic marks, e.g. in Arabic,
in a different colour from the letters. This is a hack employed by MS, and
is not a requirement of any rendering software.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC
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