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

> Does it mean that this is accomplished through ruby?

No. As you mentioned, in HTML and CSS, this is implemented using `text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-style: wavy;`.

> 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".

I agree that the text here could be improved, but if you look at https://w3c.github.io/clreq/#term.foot-side , "foot side" means "positioned beneath the corresponding characters". The corresponding CSS terminology would be [block-end](https://w3c.github.io/csswg-drafts/css-writing-modes-4/#block-end).

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

As mentioned by @ethantw in https://github.com/w3c/clreq/issues/115#issuecomment-263055089 , the Unicode code points are not listed here to reproduce proper noun marks and book title marks in plain text, but to use glyphs of Unicode code points to illustrate what these punctuations / text decoration should look like. That said, I agree that it can be confusing, and the task force will discuss how to improve the text.

> In any case, in the current draft, adding an example of showing the wavy line in a presentational manner, e.g.

We could add a figure, but we usually don't add HTML code examples, as this document tries to be technology agnostic and not to describe particular technological solutions.

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