- From: Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:49:56 +1100
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAMdq6987Kt4UidUWgKy00DsJwdEr7AseDN5CjHxh7c8H_MXAOA@mail.gmail.com>
I notice a problem when I implement the vertical positioning of ruby annotations. The problem is that, the intra-annotation white spaces cannot be properly styled, which makes the height of text container look incorrect. For example, there is a piece of code in the spec: <ruby> <rb>one</rb> <rb>two</rb> <rt>1</rt> <rt>2</rt> </ruby> After generating anonymous boxes, the frame tree is similar to: <ruby> <pseudo-rbc><rb>one</rb><pseudo-rb> <pseudo-rb><rb>two</rb></pseudo-rbc> <pseudo-rtc><rt>1</rt><pseudo-rt> </pseudo-rt><rt>2</rt></psedudo-rtc> </ruby> Here, authors cannot specify any style for the <pseudo-rt/>. It won't have a problem in normal case if UA gives the elements a proper default style. But in some cases, author may want to specify different style to annotations, for example, "rt { font-size: 30%; }". Then the boxes for the intra-annotation white space would be taller than its neighbors. This problem is relatively less troublesome for <pseudo-rb/>s since authors can always specify styles to their parents, and let them inherit. But if an auithor changes the font-size of <rb>, he/she would notice this problem as well. I have no idea about any perfect solution. But I suggest that we can make anonymous intra-annotation white spaces completely collapsed to nothing, and leave only the anonymous boxes for pairing. - Xidorn
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