> In Egyptian in the coffin texts passages are put in red, and this has > a meaning, but it doesn't mean that we wouldn't do it with markup. > Though if it WERE done by character encoding, it would be via BEGIN > RUBRIC and END RUBRIC characters functioning like left and right > parentheses leaving the display up to the very clever Egyptian-savvy > renderer.
Wait: the issue being discussed is when *parts* of a glyph have different colors. Changing the color of whole characters or passages is not an issue: just use markup. (Either standard or home-made markup :-) _ Marco