Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya dot org> wrote: > But does that mean that this kind > of text is to be ruled forever outside the scope of Unicode. I'm not > saying it should be plain text. But Unicode should be able to support > markup schemes which do allow such things.
The plain-text requirement still applies. I can imagine wanting to use bold and italics and different fonts and sizes in the same document; in fact, I just did so yesterday. But none of these features are plain text, and so I did not expect them to be handled within Unicode. The suggestion to add a "mark-color" capability to CSS might handle a majority of the realistic situations where color is really understood to be part of the textual content. Peter's two combining marks, a black one in the actual manuscript and a red one added by the editor, sounds less like a problem that Unicode or W3C need to worry about. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
