Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote:
Dnia niedziela, 12 sierpnia 2007 14:20, Keryx Web napisał:
Today, in a private mail Simon Pieters said that HTML 5 will probably
get the ruby-elements as well.
I had intended to write about this to this list and now simply will ask
if this is the case?
Personally I have a special use-case. Being a theologian I would like to
provide historical documents in an interlinear fashion:
Kai ho logos sarx egeneto (Oh, yea, it should be in greek font....)
and the word flesh became (Literal translation)
2532 3588 3056 4561 1096 (Strongs numbers)
Imagine this page
http://www.studylight.org/isb/bible.cgi?query=joh+1:14&it=nas&ot=bhs&nt=na&;
sr=1 with proper semantic markup!
Of course, we theologians are a small minority of mankind, but the
CJK-languages will profit from ruby as well, right?
Lars Gunther
I have just encountered a similar problem, the difference is my problem is
vertical. I have a document in two languages; the document has internal
structure (not just plain text). My intention is to display this document in
two columns with corresponding passages side by side retaining existing
markup.
How would such a document be read linearly? Swapping between the two
languages? If so, you could use a structure like:
<div class="passage">
<p lang="en">Hello</p>
<p lang="fr">Salut</p>
</div>
And style that with display:table-row and display:table-cell.
This might also be an interesting use-case for the ALT element suggested
on the public-html list:
<div class="passage">
<p id="p4858" lang="en">Hello</p>
<alt for="p4858 lang="fr"><p>Salut</p></alt>
</div>
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
I am afraid there is no way to do it because existing markup cannot
span table rows.
BTW: What do you think about explicit kerning? You can move boxes with a
relative position around but the layout depends on their natural positions. I
understand this is rather off topic (CSS).
Example of application:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_(graph_theory)> (currently viewable
with Internet Explorer only)
Best regards
Chris
