Re: [clreq] Low line or underline? (#115)

This is my first comment in this topic, so I'm not sure if the right place is an issue last commented 4 years ago.

From what I understand the book title mark is not supported in Unicode. The current draft contains this text:
> Book title mark type A U+FE4F WAVY LOW LINE [﹏] has a wavy line appearance and is positioned at the foot end of the annotated text.

In "positioned at the foot end of the annotated text", what is the "annotated text"? Does it mean that this is accomplished through ruby?

In the earlier draft, this text is present:
> U+FE4F WAVY LOW LINE [﹏] is positioned beneath the corresponding characters. When two works are listed next to each other, the wavy lines for each should be clearly separated. 

The context that was lost, i.e. "positioned beneath the corresponding characters", is an important part to understand how the mark works, because it is exactly how the book title mark is meant to be used (and appear). Without this context, in the current draft, I cannot quite make sense of "positioned at the foot end of the annotated text".

With regards to whether the book title mark should exist in Unicode, it would be an enthusiastic yes -- a purely stylistic requirement does not work for normal text.

For example, on Wikipedia, the wavy line is implemented as a style encoded in HTML:
```html
<span style="text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-style: wavy;">離騒</span>
```

This is a purely stylistic encoding that is bound to HTML, and not reproducible in Unicode text.


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