From: "Oliver M.Bolzer" <oliver@...>
Date: 2001-02-22T19:40:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11299] Re: W3C Ruby

David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> wrote:

> Hello --
> 
> I happened to notice these announcements on the WWW Consortium Web
> site (http://www.w3.org).  It sounds quite interesting -- too bad
> they couldn't have come up with a different gemstone :-)

>   Ruby Annotation Working Draft Published
> 
>   16 February 2001: The Internationalization Working Group has released
>   a Working Draft of Ruby Annotation, defining an XHTML module for ruby
>   markup. Ruby is a short piece of text alongside base text, typically
>   found in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide
>   an annotation.  Read about the W3C Internationalization Activity.

Well, "Ruby" is a normal japanese word describing exactly what this Working 
Draft is about. small text along side the main text, describing the main 
text.
Altough I think they should have named their "Ruby" "Rubi" because the 
original japanese word has a very short "i" at the end of the 
pronaounciation while our "Ruby" has a long "i" at the end. But it looks 
like the other "Ruby" has been traditionally written that way in alphabet.

# BTW, on a totally different subject, I am packaging "Programming Ruby"
# as a Debian packagie. Get it at a Debian mirror near you, soon.

-- 
        Oliver M. Bolzer
        oliver@gol.com

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