Good point--the markup is primarily driven by Japanese requirements but it
is not unique to Japanese typography as you say.
Cheers,
E.
On 1/25/12 11:18 PM, "Richard Hamilton" <> wrote:
> Eliot,
>
> I agree that it probably should be a domain, for the reasons you describe.
> However, there are other languages where a phonetic "ruby" could be useful.
> I've seen the same kind of thing in Chinese texts (mostly in language learning
> aids), and I'm sure there are other uses.
>
> So, I would suggest that any specification description not imply that usage is
> limited to Japanese.
>
> Best Regards,
> Richard
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> On Jan 25, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
>
>> HTML5 provides an improved version of HTML 4's <ruby> markup, which is
>> required for Japanese-language documents that include kanji (ideographic)
>> characters.
>>
>> In Japanese, the pronunciation of ideographic characters cannot always (or
>> often) be known from context. The ideographic characters are annotated with
>> their phonetic transliteration, a "ruby", which is rendered above or beside
>> or following the ideographs. This is standard Japanese typography.
>>
>> In the context of the DITA for Publishers vocabulary I have defined a direct
>> copy of the HTML5 markup design, e.g.:
>>
>> <p> 探険船シビリアコフ号の北氷洋航海中に撮影されたエピソード映画の中に、一頭
>> の<ruby>
>> <rb>白熊</rb>
>> <rp>（</rp>
>> <rt>しろくま</rt>
>> <rp>）</rp>
>> </ruby>を射殺し、その子を生け捕る光景が記録されている。</p>
>>
>> Implementing this for HTML output is trivial--just copy to output. For PDF
>> it's a little more work but can be done in XSL-FO.
>>
>> <ruby> and its ruby-specific subelements are specializations of <ph>.
>>
>> I am proposing this as a new domain simply to keep the vocabulary isolated
>> so that non-Japanese-language documents need not include this markup. But it
>> would equally appropriate to add it to the DITA base vocabulary as well.
>>
>> The Ruby markup works as expected in most modern browsers and in at least
>> iBooks for EPUB. I have not tested on Kindle Fire.
>>
>> The HTML5 specification for <ruby> is here:
>>
>> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-ruby-element
>>
>> The D4P vocabulary module and HTML implementation for the Open Toolkit is
>> available as part of the DITA for Publishers package,
>> dita4publishers.sourceforge.net.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Eliot
>>
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