RE: [WSG] Newbie Questions: East-Asian Character Sets and Marking-up Poetry

2005-08-10 Thread Kwok Ting Lee
Thanks for the link. Thankfully, this being Chinese poetry, indentation isn't a problem: Chinese poetry is frightfully regular, as in lines of precisely 4 characters (syllables) (with some abberations which may be attributed to its origins in folk poetry and song -- the syllables may have been

RE: [WSG] Newbie Questions: East-Asian Character Sets and Marking-up Poetry

2005-08-09 Thread John Foliot - WATS.ca
Kwok Ting Lee wrote: This is, I guess, one of the first times I've written anything here, but I've run into a bit of a dilemma and was hoping for some advice: 1. I have a number of analyses of poems I am planning on posting to my weblog over the next few months, however, I'm a bit stumped

RE: [WSG] Newbie Questions: East-Asian Character Sets and Marking-up Poetry

2005-08-09 Thread Joshua Street
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 08:56 -0400, John Foliot - WATS.ca wrote: Kwok Ting Lee wrote: This is, I guess, one of the first times I've written anything here, but I've run into a bit of a dilemma and was hoping for some advice: 1. I have a number of analyses of poems I am planning on posting

Re: [WSG] Newbie Questions: East-Asian Character Sets and Marking-up Poetry

2005-08-08 Thread Juergen Auer
On 8 Aug 2005 at 13:47, Kwok Ting Lee wrote: Anyway, the question I have is (and this may be somewhat off-topic), but how would one go about hiding the Chinese characters for those people who do not have Chinese fonts enabled on their system? I didn't test it, but it should work: With

RE: [WSG] Newbie Questions: East-Asian Character Sets and Marking-up Poetry

2005-08-08 Thread Kwok Ting Lee
Thanks, everyone. That's a start on figuring out what to do with this. I'll ruminate on it for a bit, do a few tests, maybe let a few of my readers test it out at a test page and then decide how to deploy it on the site. Kwok Ting Lee **

Re: [WSG] Newbie Questions: East-Asian Character Sets and Marking-up Poetry

2005-08-07 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 08/08/2005, at 1:47 PM, Kwok Ting Lee wrote: 2. Additionally, I am likely going to be posting entries that will be partly in Chinese (quotations from the original text together with my translations and comments, so that knowledgeable readers can refer to the original themselves to judge