Re: Chromatographic scripts

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 22:53:49 -0500, Mark E. Shoulson <mark@...> wrote:

> On 01/07/04 18:45, Nicholas Bodley wrote:
>
>> (More comment)
>> Considering the sophistication and variety of almost-all-monochrome
>> glyphs, it seems somewhat surprising that color[u]r has not been used
>> more to give meaning. With modern colo[u]r printing and displays, at
>> least we
>> now have affordable technology to support chromatographic scripts.

> As I think about it, actually, it doesn't seem so surprising. Expensive
> or not, multicolor writing requires much more complicated writing
> equipment to be available; specifically, colors of ink, on hand, not
> mixing with one another, switching between them while writing...

Yes, indeed. Although what you say is essentially obvious, I hadn't
thought of how inconvenient it would be to change color all the time.
However... One could assign colors to the function keys in a special
text-entry application, though; that wouldn't be hard to use. As well, it
seems that a good modern office software suite permits you to change the
color of any selected text, but that's not nearly as easy as assigning
function keys to set colors. (Afaik, nobody has written such an
application, but it shouldn't be difficult for any competent
programmer/developer.)

Best regards,

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Nicholas Bodley <#o#> Waltham, Mass.
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