About Rubies in HTML...
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- Justification
- Consider a character set as complex as Chinese, where some characters are used
rarely and are thus not as easily recognizable by younger children or possibly
many adults. In Japanese writing, the phonetic Hiragana alphabet is used to pair
phonetic 'helper' readings (called Furigana or Yomigana in Japanese) with the
chinese character counterpart.
Rubies are meant to serve the same purpose in HTML as furigana does in Japanese.
The Ruby pairs helper content with the base content. The helper content may
contain such things as pronunciation aids, but it can serve other purposes as
well.
- Usage
- [ <Ruby>]
- This is the container element for the ruby structure. It contains the RB and
RT elements.
- [ <Rb>, <Rt> ]
- The Ruby Text (RT) contains the helper content for the Ruby Base (RB).
- Related Sites
- Official References
- http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/html/reference/elements.asp
- Internet Explorer element reference
[Includes documentation on RB, RT and RUBY]
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