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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

David G. Wonnacott wrote:

> This is somewhat off the previous topic, but I am about to start
> working on a document in which I'll need to make a somewhat unusual
> use of color for text. Specifically, in some cases I'll need to have a
> single letter with two colors (e.g., one that is half pale blue and
> half orange); this may need to be a very narrow letter such as "i", so
> I may have to partition the letter vertically (e.g., top half blue and
> bottom half orange) to make it visually evident (I'll also be using a
> large font, of course).
>
>  
Depends on the letter you want. The attached document
demonstrates how to do this with a table for the
letter "i", and gives an example with superposing
the letters "o" and "x". You could also try with
the TeXmacs vector graphics editor, although I didn't
tried this in my example (I would need more details
about what kind of multicolor letters you want to do
to be able to elaborate more my examples ; feel free
to give more details & ask more things in a followup
mail ;-).

Best, Henri
<TeXmacs|1.0.6.6>

<style|generic>

<\body>
  
<assign|big-i|<macro|x|<with|font-base-size|<arg|x>|<tabular|<tformat|<cwith|1|1|1|1|cell-hyphen|t>|<table|<row|<\cell>
    \ 
<with|color|blue|<with|font-base-size|<times|15|<value|font-base-size>>|<with|mode|math|
    \<bullet\>>>>

    \;

    \;
  
</cell>>|<row|<cell|<with|font-base-size|<times|60|<value|font-base-size>>|<with|color|red|l>>>>>>>>>>

  <big-i|1.2>

  \;

  \;

  
<superpose|<with|font-base-size|60|color|blue|o>|<with|font-base-size|60|color|red|x>>
</body>

<\initial>
  <\collection>
    <associate|page-type|letter>
    <associate|preamble|false>
    <associate|sfactor|5>
  </collection>
</initial>