Re: [css-ruby] spanning of ruby annotations across excess bases

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> I have another suggestion. I found that in all use cases I had seen in
>> JLREQ and specs, spanning is never directly connected with any previous
>> separate-paired annotation. Is that make sense to only have span when an
>> annotation is the only child of a <rtc>? I think that could significantly
>> reduce the complexity on width calculation (which is the hardest part in my
>> opinion) and line breaking. In addition, even if we drop spanning
>> completely, we have to process this level of complexity to support
>> ruby-merge anyway.
>>
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> I don't understand what you meant by "connected",
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I meant, I found that spans do not immediately follow other annotations, so
that use cases for spanning can be covered by the solution I proposed.


> but do you mean to allow spanning only when there is only one <rt> child
> for a <rtc>? If that's the case, I think it's reasonable. If I
> misunderstood what you meant, can you clarify a bit more?
>

Yes, that's what I meant. That could significantly simplify handling
spanning, since there won't be spans of different width in one segment.

- Xidorn