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From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Font goodies color schemes by Unicode number
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:23:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120324202356.GA20084@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F515317.4090100@wxs.nl>

On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 12:09:11AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 29-2-2012 14:57, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Was exploring font goodies and color schemes and so far works great,
> >very nice feature, thanks Hans.
> >
> >Now I've to small questions/feature requests:
> >Can color schemes be
> >defined using Unicode code points, e.g.: { 0x064E, 0x064F } instead of
> >glyph names (e.g. I'd like to have a font independent goody to color
> >Arabic combining marks and no glyph substitution is involved so Unicode
> >code points should work for most fonts).
> >
> >Second question, can it be (ab)used to color a whole font with the same
> >color (can be handy sometimes), e.g. using a special wildcard or
> >something: { "*" }.
> 
> the next beta supports "*" as well as ranges "0x0030:0x0035"
> 
> (I adapted demo.lfg and goodies-002.tex)

Thanks Hans, it took me a while to get around testing it but I'm happy
to report that it works as expected :) I don't have a generic Arabic
file per se (but I'll right one someday), but the request was mainly
inspired by this question (though it is something I wanted to explore
for a while):
http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/46240/729

Regards,
 Khaled
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-24 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-29 13:57 Khaled Hosny
2012-02-29 15:57 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-02-29 16:33 ` Hans Hagen
2012-03-02 23:09 ` Hans Hagen
2012-03-24 20:23   ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2012-03-25 14:44     ` Hans Hagen

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