> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Peter Kirk
> And what if you want to colour just the dot on i? Or just the crossbar > on a t? Use Illustrator or Photoshop or Freehand or whatever your favourite graphics application is. > A very tentative suggestion for some glue: a character which can take > combining marks but whose function is to throw those marks back on to > the preceding base character, preceding any markup. I see no particular value in this. The font rendering of <span>base diacritic</span> should be exactly the same as that for <span>base</span><span>diacritic</span> provided the font characteristics are the same or do not affect metrics. Peter Peter Constable Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies Microsoft Windows Division