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Front matter

Intended audience

HTML/XHTML and CSS content authors work want to know how to use ruby annotations. This material is applicable whether you create documents in an editor, or via scripting.

Why should you read this?

Ruby is a name for small annotations that are rendered alongside base text. This is especially useful for Japanese and other East Asian content (ruby is known as furigana in Japanese). The Ruby Annotation specification provides a way to mark up ruby text, and has been adopted as an XHTML 1.1 module. Work is under way in CSS3 on mechanisms to support styling of ruby text. This tutorial will introduce you to the basic mechanisms, and discuss the current state of the art with regards to ruby support.

How to use this material

This material is organized around a set of presentation slides which can be viewed in several ways. Each view is identified by an icon as described below.

All in one A single page containing all explanatory text followed by small accompanying slides.

Slide by slide One page per slide view. This is particularly useful if you need to see the detail on a slide.

Slide text This page by page version of the slides is provided mainly for those who want to cut and paste the text on the slides. (You will need appropriate fonts and rendering software to see the text correctly.)

Overview The overview provides a list of headings to help you navigate around the presentation quickly.

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