That's very cool. I used to see those annotations in the manga comics, they called them 'furigana' I think.<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Raju Bitter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rajubitter@googlemail.com">rajubitter@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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This might be interesting for you as well, if you are looking into improved text components.<br>
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I just ran into the <ruby> tag in HTML 5: <a href="http://webkit.org/blog/948/ruby-rendering-in-webkit/" target="_blank">http://webkit.org/blog/948/ruby-rendering-in-webkit/</a><br>
"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."<br>
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You probably know that from Japan, the annotation above the Kanjis. Would be valuable for OpenLaszlo apps using Japanese, Chinese, ...<br>
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- Raju<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Henry Minsky<br>Software Architect<br><a href="mailto:hminsky@laszlosystems.com">hminsky@laszlosystems.com</a><br><br><br>
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