Re: Annotation characters

From: Martin Duerst (duerst@w3.org)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 01:53:38 EDT


Hello Patrick,

You can find a better way to do furigana, and an answer to many
of your questions, at http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby (the Ruby Annotation
Recommendation).

Regards, Martin.

At 18:40 01/07/19 -0400, Patrick Andries wrote:

>Just a small question about annotation characters.
>
>If I understand p. 326 this sequence should be valid :
>
><IAA>U+723B<IAS> <ne, ko> <IAS> cat <IAT>.
>
>Is this the case ?
>
>If so, does such an annotation character sequence have any application
>in Japanese typography ? In other words, does one find double ruby
>notation ? I would find it useful for kanji ignorami like me.
>
>If double furigana are sometimes used, are both annotations found
>stacked on top of one another or is one annttion found on top and the
>other at the bottom of the annotated character ?
>
>P. Andries
>
>P.-S. : I'm still interested by a definition of "in(-)line software"
>(http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr27/)". I know what inline code
>or processing could be but I can't quite understand the relationship
>with the inline software mentioned here and processing music text.
>
>
>
>



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