On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Michael[tm] Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Xidorn, > > Xidorn Quan <[email protected]>, 2014-12-26 04:41 -0800: > ... > > If you want the word "明朝体" to be marked in ruby in separate form, with > > the WHATWG rules, you must write it as: > > > > <ruby>明<rt>みん</rt>朝<rt>ちょう</rt>体<rt>たい</rt></ruby> > > > > It is incompatible with the inline form, which means, if an author wants > > to switch between the inline form and ruby, there are only two options: > > 1. provide a different document for each form; 2. drop the separate form > > and use only the collapsed form for ruby. Neither of them perfectly > > matches the requirement. But with the W3C rules, it can be written as: > > > > <ruby><rb>明<rb>朝<rb>体<rp>（<rt>みん<rt>ちょう<rt>たい<rp>）</ruby> > > > > which is obviously compatible with the inline form. > > > > The difference in expression ability becomes more important when there > > are words mixed with kanji and kana, such as "振り仮名". For this word, > > you won't even have the second option above, because I don't think people > > want to write something like > > > > <ruby>振り仮名<rt>ふりがな</rt></ruby> > > What would be the right way to mark that up with <rb>? In particular, what > would be the right way if the authors wants to switch between the inline > form and ruby? > It would be <ruby><rb>振<rb>り<rb>仮<rb>名<rt>ふ<rt>り<rt>が<rt>な</ruby> The <rt> for "り" here could be individually hidden in ruby form by stylesheets. In fact, in CSS Ruby, we currently have autohide rule which automatically hide the the annotation when it is equal to the base. - Xidorn _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
