[XeTeX] Color Hebrew Vowel Points
John Was
john.was at ntlworld.com
Wed Jul 25 09:30:59 CEST 2007
If \phantom works as normal in XeTeX I would simply include the long o vowel
in the black text and surround it with \phantom{} so that the two boxes
remain of equal width.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Kew" <jonathan_kew at sil.org>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 8:20 AM
Subject: JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] Color Hebrew Vowel Points
> On 24 Jul 2007, at 9:41 pm, Joshua Grauman wrote:
>
>> I would like to try your last suggestion about overprinting.
>> However, I
>> don't have any idea how to "overprint" either in XeTeX or
>> OpenOffice or
>> whatever. Frankly, I would like to use OpenOffice to create the
>> charts.
>> For making a critical edition XeTeX is great, for a simple chart...
>> Anyway, I was wondering if any of you ps/pdf experts knew how to
>> overlay
>> two ps files like Jonathan is suggesting... Thanks.
>
> I see you've got a solution, so this may not be relevant, but perhaps
> someone will find a use for it in the future... anyhow, if you were
> prepared to tackle it in XeTeX it would be pretty easy. Here's a
> possible approach:
>
> \TeXXeTstate=1
> \font\redfont="Ezra SIL:script=hebr;color=FF0000" at 24pt
> \font\blkfont="Ezra SIL:script=hebr" at 24pt
>
> \def\redandblack#1x#2{\blkfont
> % print text #1 in red, then overlay #2 in black
> \setbox0=\hbox{\redfont\beginR #1\endR}%
> \setbox2=\hbox{\blkfont\beginR #2\endR}%
> \ifdim\wd0=\wd2 \else
> \message{WARNING: width mismatch: #1 and #2}\fi
> \leavevmode \hbox{\beginL\box0
> \kern-\wd2 \box2\endL}}
>
> \noindent\beginR
> \redandblack{בְּרֵאשִׁית}x{בּראשית}
> \redandblack{בָּרָא}x{בּרא}
> \redandblack{אֱלֹהִים}x{אלהים}
> % etc
>
> \end
>
> Note that the third word here is an example where the dot on lamed
> *does* modify the spacing, and therefore the results will not be as
> desired. The SBL Hebrew font would be another option; there, the dot
> causes only a very small change to spacing, so the result might be
> acceptable. If you want the dagesh colored as well, SBL Hebrew
> definitely works better.
>
> This could of course be used within table cells, or whatever, just as
> well as in a normal paragraph. The same technique could be used to
> print Arabic with colored vowels, etc.
>
> For advanced TeX macro programmers: in principle, it should be
> possible to set up macros to automatically do this to running text,
> rather than add macros throughout. Anyone up for a challenge? :-)
>
> JK
>
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