: Re: Efficient way to colour code text? For the purposes of learning Chinese, I want to write every character in a short novel in a colour that corresponds to its tone (pronunciation thing). The

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If you want to stick with EPUB, you can save space by giving each tone a class with a short name and defining the class's color in the CSS. So the example you gave would look something like this:

<span class="a"> 今 </span>

The CSS file, named something like stylesheet.css, would define the class like this:

span.a {
color: #64B4FF
}

You'd need to add a link to the stylesheet in the head element of each HTML file like this:

<link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/>

The path in href is relative, and this example assumes stylesheet.css is in the same directory as the HTML file.

I don't know if this approach will save enough space to speed up highlighting and dictionary lookups, but it's something to try.

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