[ruby-talk:04272] OT: New Ruby Working Draft Published

Yes, this really is off topic, and yes, the title is accurate.

(And no, unlike past attempts at humor that certain other depraved denizens
of cyberspace have inflicted upon the Ruby World Network, this isn't just
another cruel hoax. :-)

FWIW, another search engine tangent. YMMV....

http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/news1999Q3.html

[September 24, 1999]   New Ruby Working Draft Published.    The W3C has
released a new working draft specification for Ruby, W3C Working Draft
24-September-1999. The editors include Marcin Sawicki, Michel Suignard,
Masayasu Ishikawa, and Martin Dst. The working draft has been "published
by the Internationalization Working Group. In a future version, this work is
intended to be submitted to the HTML Working Group for inclusion as a module
in the XHTML 1.1." The Ruby working draft "specification extends XHTML to
support ruby text typically used in East Asian documents; some familiarity
with HTML 4.0, XHTML 1.0 and the XHTML Modularization framework is assumed.
XHTML 1.0 is a reformulation of HTML 4.0 as an XML 1.0 application, and the
modularization of XHTML provides a means for subsetting and extending XHTML.
'Ruby' is the commonly used name for a run of text that appears in the
immediate vicinity of another run of text, referred to as the 'base'. Ruby
serve as a pronunciation guide or an annotation associated with the base
text. Ruby are used frequently in Japan in most kinds of publications, such
a books and magazines, but also in China, especially in schoolbooks. East
Asian typography has developed various elements that do not appear in
western typography. Most of these can be addressed appropriately with
facilities in stylesheet languages such as CSS or XSL. Ruby, however,
require markup in order to define the association between base text and ruby
text. This document defines such markup, designed to be usable with HTML, in
order to make ruby available on the Web without using special workarounds or
graphics. Section 1.2 ('Ruby Markup') provides an overview of the markup for
ruby defined in this document. A formal definition can be found in Section
2. The markup is in XML notation. Appendix A ('Ruby modules in XHTML')
describes the Ruby DTD modules - a DTD driver and a catalog file that can be
used with the XHTML 1.1 DTD modules. These modules are conforming to the
Module Conformance requirements as defined in the Building XHTML Modules
specification. These modules are expected to be included in the XHTML 1.1
and are not intended to define a new markup language as an XHTML-family
document type, so names are temporary and slightly different from the Naming
Rules in the XHTML Family Document Type Conformance. The WD's changes from
previous public Working Draft are presented in a final Appendix.