Re: [css-ruby] ruby-position: inter-character

Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp> $)Al6 2014Dj9TB19HU OBNg10:03 $)GlQg,$)A#:
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> The original question of this thread was:
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>> For the tone marks, though, I don't do anything special yet. You can control the position of the tone marks with a nested ruby, but this is obviously not ideal. I am looking for guidance regarding how to position the tone marks automatically, but I am unclear on what the rules for positioning them are. I see different positioning rules in various examples$)A!-
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> and this is what I thought we were discussing.
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> Can we get back to this topic now?

There's a document published by Institute for Information Industry(iii) Taiwan in 2011 to tell how to support EPUB 3 for Reading System[1]. In page 52, it told that tone mark should be implied by nested ruby to make sure be put aside.

So I always marked Bopomofo in this way.

<ruby>$)GKt<rt><ruby>%N%`<rt>%n</rt></ruby></rt></ruby>

I don't think its an ideal way. But if we marked Bopomofo like this:

<ruby>$)GKt<rt>%N%`%n</rt></ruby>

To put tone mark aside may depend on 1, render engine or 2, OpenType feature (GPOS/GSUB).

But recently I found another issue: when Bopomobo appears inline, tone mark as ruby[2].

It has same structure as nested ruby:

...$)A2;$)Gs\fZ{t!V<ruby>%i%f<rt>%o</rt></ruby>!W$)A#,...

So should Bopomofo ruby be nested or not? I am a little confusing.

[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o68qmp707rc69jp/Publication%20software%20specification.pdf <https://www.dropbox.com/s/o68qmp707rc69jp/Publication%20software%20specification.pdf>
[2]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Sep/0186.html <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Sep/0186.html>



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