Re: [css-ruby] Space distribution in situations with spanning annotations

On 11/16/2014 10:41 PM, Xidorn Quan wrote:
> Currently it is undefined that how ruby-align should be applied
> if there are spanning annotations.
>
> When previously discussed off the list, fantasai said that the
> behavior would be equivalent to nested markup. However, I don't
> think it is workable. With nested markup, there is a unique
> ruby-align value applied to the whole inner ruby, while we may
> have different values for each level when handling spanning.
> On the other hand, in cases like <rbc><rb>a</rb></rbc><rtc>xyz</rtc>,
> whether the content in the rtc is recognized as a span could
> affect the result, which does not look correct to me.
>
> I suggest that, in those situations, non-spanning pairs are
> directly expanded to match the width of the whole ruby, as if they
> have a longer annotation in some level, regardless of ruby-align.
> This could solve both problems I mentioned above.

I'm confused. Can you give a more specific problematic example?

<rbc><rb>a</rb></rbc><rtc>xyz</rtc> in particular doesn't look
like a problem, it should behave exactly as <rb>a</rb><rt>xyz</rt>.

~fantasai

Received on Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:08:31 UTC