- From: Ayers, Mike <Mike_Ayers@bmc.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 08:12:42 +0900
- To: www-international@w3.org
> From: Martin Duerst [mailto:duerst@w3.org]
>
> At 10:00 01/04/09 -0700, Carl W. Brown wrote:
> >I am wondering how in the absence of a sub language how one
> should render
> >Chinese ruby. Mandarin ruby will not do a Cantonese reader
> much good. Can
> >I specify multiple ruby and then have one displayed
> depending on the spoken
> >language?
>
> Maybe that's one reason for ruby not beeing that much used in Chinese
> as in Japanese? But it could be very interesting for somebody
> speaking Cantonese and wanting to learn Mandarin, or vice versa.
> You can give up to two ruby per base text, so you could have Mandarin
> on one side and Cantonese on the other, or could switch on one
> or the other with a stilesheet. For more advanced things, you would
> need something like SMIL, which has an explicit <switch> statement.
>
How would one render Cantonese ruby? I am aware of "bopomofo"
("Taiwan pinyin") for Mandarin (and near-Mandarin) pronunciations,
but I've never heard of a system for Cantonese. I know that there
are romanizations, which would be good for English-speaking students,
but not very useful for Chinese, I think (the only Chinese I have ever
met who could read romanizations were Chinese language teachers). Is
ruby used at all in native Chinese contexts?
/|/|ike
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