[Laszlo-dev] OpenLaszlo & text - annotating Hanzi or Kanjis in East Asian languages with the <ruby> tag

[Henry Minsky]

That is terrific! I actually have studied some Japanese, and this will be
very helpful to me
if I try to keep up with it.


On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Raju Bitter <rajubitter at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Henry, there are 2 Firefox plugins which I tested:
> Furigana Injector
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6178
>
> xHTML Ruby Support
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1935
>
> With those extensions you can navigate to a page containing Japanese and
> the Furigana will be displayed for Kanjis in the dictionary. Here's a
> screenshot of the CNN.co.jp site with Furigana switched on:
>
> That's fantastic for anyone studying Japanese! Depends on the dictionary
> quality of course, since there multiple ways to pronunce Kanjis.
>
> Cheers,
> Raju
>
> On Jan 31, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Raju Bitter wrote:
>
> Right, that's Furigana. :-)
>
> On Jan 31, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Henry Minsky wrote:
>
> That's very cool. I used to see those annotations in the manga comics, they
> called them 'furigana' I think.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Raju Bitter <rajubitter at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> Henry,
>>
>> This might be interesting for you as well, if you are looking into
>> improved text components.
>>
>> I just ran into the <ruby> tag in HTML 5:
>> http://webkit.org/blog/948/ruby-rendering-in-webkit/
>>  "A ruby annotation is a short piece of text in smaller font, written
>> directly above or below or – with vertical text – to either side of the base
>> text. It is most often used in East Asian typography in order to provide
>> further information. Most commonly it shows the pronounciation of Chinese
>> characters."
>>
>>
>>
>> You probably know that from Japan, the annotation above the Kanjis. Would
>> be valuable for OpenLaszlo apps using Japanese, Chinese, ...
>>
>> - Raju
>>
>>
>>
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> --
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com
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