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

[Henry Minsky]

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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