[thelist] Marking up words in colours

[r937]

> ... think about what information you're conveying with colour and
investigate whether it's possible to model with semantic mark-up.

but he said what that was -- 

"OK, let me say that every letter or group of letters on the page
will need to be coloured one way or another. Imagine it's a kiddies
reading book and we want them to be able to tell the difference between
an 'h' that sounds like the h in 'hi' from the silent h in "light", and
for that matter, the silent g. Perhaps silent letters are in a different
colour."

so clearly, the letter or group of letters is the important datum

so, put opening and closing tags around the instances of these data

  <tag>V</tag><tag>WA</tag><tag>L</tag><tag>AH</tag>

here "tag" could be SPAN or whatever (but please, not FONT)

the fact that the letters combine to form english words is perceived by
recognizing/parsing the intervening white space between words

it is the importance of distinguishing between letters and groups of letters 
that determines where the semantic markup takes place

simple, really

;o)