IRC log of tt on 2015-10-28

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Meeting: Timed Text Working Group Teleconference
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Date: 28 October 2015
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chair: nigel
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Present: olivier, andreas, akitsugu, nigel, glenn, zcorpan, pierre
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Topic: Introductions
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Simon Pieters, Opera
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Nigel Megitt, BBC
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Olivier Thereaux, BBC (obs)
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Glenn Adams, Skynav
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Akitsugu Baba , NHK
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Dae: Netflix
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Institut für Rundfunktechnik
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s/Institut/Andreas Tai, Institut
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pal: Pierre Lemieux, MovieLabs
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Topic: Agenda Review
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nigel: Goes through agenda. Any proposals to change it?
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pal: What are we trying to achieve on each of these topics?
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atai2: Can we go for TTML <--> WebVTT mapping immediately after lunch?
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... Also tomorrow morning before IMSC can we have a session on industry feedback on TTML?
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... Apart from the mapping, are there any other topics we should cover re WebVTT?
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zcorpan: I thought also we should have a session on WebVTT.
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nigel: When would be a good time to do that?
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zcorpan: Maybe this afternoon. The main thing I want to talk about is how we publish
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... working drafts, and having a single URL for ED and /TR WD snapshot.
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nigel: That fits with the tools discussion..
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zcorpan: Can we move that to today?
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nigel: I wanted plh to come along for the tools part.
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Topic: HTMLCue proposal
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nigel: Introduces topic - history of this coming from Glenn and Erik Lindstrom of Opera.
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... The idea being to use the timing abilities of TextTrackCue to do generic HTML presentation.
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... We sent a proposal to WHATWG and in summary the response was that there are
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... things that we need to think about, and possible unintended consequences.
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atai2: We also wanted to get developer/implementor views, which we did yesterday.
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nigel: Yes, yesterday I ran a breakout session on the topic, minutes at
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... http://www.w3.org/2015/10/28-htmlcue-minutes.html
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... which had good attendance.
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zcorpan: There were a few misunderstandings. One was that the HTMLSpec had a
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... 250ms potential delay for notifying when a cue was rendered in Javascript. In fact
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... that was an unrelated event called timeUpdate. There are separate cue enter and
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... cue leave that have accurate timings, so Javascript events aren't going to miss a cue.
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... The other conclusion was that instead of using HTMLCue it is a better idea to have
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... the js parse the cue data and then render it on top of the video and not have the
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... browser do that.
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... Going back a step, one of the reasons is that the track element is not capable of
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... executing scripts currently, or of referencing external references from the subtitle
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... track itself. The assumption is, like the img element, including a subtitle file is safe
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... and cannot do anything. If we allow html inside a subtitle track it can suddenly do
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... lots of things that could be a security or privacy problem or both, so it is unlikely
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... that browser vendors are going to jump at implementing it.
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glenn: Of course we're not making the assumption that it is necessary to process
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... scripts or fetch resources. It's possible to put restrictions on how the HTML is
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... processed
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zcorpan: As Ted pointed out, safely subsetting HTML is extremely hard and it is
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... probably a bad idea to do that - it's easier and safer to start from zero and add things.
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glenn: We already know about flags like sandbox flags that control the context.
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... It would be one thing if we were introducing a whole new type of sandbox rather than
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... using the existing mechanisms that are already implemented. For example, if we
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... triggered it as a sandboxed feature, would that raise the same issues?
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zcorpan: The current sandbox was not designed as a be-all security feature, but as a
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... defence in depth feature for when untrusted content is also sanitised on the server,
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... to catch bugs. Also there is no sandbox value that does what we want to do. It will
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... still fetch external resources for instance. So we still have the problem of defining
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... what is the safe subset of HTML.
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atai2: I think there are 2 different views - one is on the feasibility of the technical solution,
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... and the other is how to proceed. We wanted to get browser side perspective,
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... but nobody stood up from the browser community to say possibly this is feasible
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... instead the view was to use WebVTT with metadata payload and have js then
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... render the HTML. For us it would be important to decide what to do. One proposal
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... would be to follow this concept and see if that works for our use case.
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zcorpan: As an aside, the same technique would work for ad display also.
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nigel: This technique is to use a TextTrack whose kind attribute is metadata, then have
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... javascript pull out the HTML data and render it on the onenter(). The objection I raised
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... was that this subverts the purpose of the kind attribute and prevents accessible
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... solutions from knowing that tracks are intended for display for accessibility.
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... There was an action that Ted proposed to raise a feature request on this...
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zcorpan: Yes, I can take an action item on that, to expose the accessibility preferences
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... to Javascript so that scripts can honour the user preference.
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Action: zcorpan Raise an issue on the HTML spec to add an API to expose the user preference
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Created ACTION-440 - Raise an issue on the html spec to add an api to expose the user preference [on Simon Pieters - due 2015-11-05].
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nigel: From an architectural perspective it still seems neater to me to keep TextTrack kind
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... for its intended purpose and to use different cue types to express different presentation
00:52:15 [nigel]
... semantics - VTTCue is great for expressing how VTT cues should be presented
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... but not for other types.
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zcorpan: I thought of another approach for HTML - to allow more than one value in the
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... kind attribute, for example "metadata subtitles" where the term "metadata" just means
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... 'not for direct rendering by the UA'.
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atai2: I think we need to decide where to take this forward.
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nigel: It feels too soon to stop this now - there's a suggestion from another browser manufacturer that they would be interested in doing some work here.
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atai2: For me the next step is to analyse further the proposal to use metadata in this way.
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nigel: It's worth noting that dash.js already uses this approach. They had to use VTTCue because it was the only text track cue that is implemented.
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zcorpan: It's not overloading VTTCue - it was actually designed to support that.
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atai2: Another part of the proposal is to use a VTT file to store the payload.
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zcorpan: Yes, but you don't have to use a VTT file - you can get the cue data from anywhere
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... XHR, a WebSocket, or wherever. You just need a mapping between a cue and the payload.
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nigel: So we have one action - any others?
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atai2: It would be good to look in depth at the approach and see how well it works.
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zcorpan: If you have any questions on that I'd be happy to help.
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nigel: That feels like a mini task force to go and think about this and generate a small
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... document.
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nigel: That's Andreas, Nigel and Simon.
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Action: atai2 Kick off the analysis work on the VTTCue carrying HTML idea.
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Created ACTION-441 - Kick off the analysis work on the vttcue carrying html idea. [on Andreas Tai - due 2015-11-05].
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Topic: TTML2 - Script layout, rubys etc.
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glenn: http://www.w3.org/TR/css-ruby-1/#edge-effects
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... * ruby overhand
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s/nd/ng
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... * ruby overflow
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... * ruby reserve
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... * ruby offset
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glenn: The use case for adding ruby markup to TTML2 was to support the lamba cap semantics.
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... It turns out that there are a couple of edge cases that were not handled by CSS.
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... In some cases CSS discussed them. In addition the Japanese Language Requirements
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... document discussed them, and in others neither of them were discussed. We ended
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... up defining 5 different style properties - the 4 as listed above and ruby overhang class
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In the case at the above URL there's an example where the 6 ruby characters take more
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... width than the base. So you need to know how to overhang. In the top example
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... white space is added around the base to make the width match, so there's no overhang.
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... In the next example (example 18) the text is allowed to overhang adjacent base
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... characters.
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s/In the case/glenn: In the case
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glenn: CSS doesn't define a mechanism to control the behaviour of the rendering process
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... Additionally there's ruby overflow, which comes up when you have the case of wider
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... ruby than the base and the context is a line edge boundary. (Figure 19)
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... Let's say you have a text alignment of start or left, then the base characters push up
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... against the left edge. If the ruby text is wider than the base, and you specify a ruby
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... alignment such as center. You can specify how the ruby box aligns with the base content.
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... You can specify start, end, center, distribute space between, distribute space around.
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... In this case if you want to center the ruby then you push the ruby box outside the line
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... box to maintain the alignment. The base text has priority the text alignment. You have
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... an over constrained environment, which causes the problem. There are two ways to
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... resolve the overflow. You can relax the base text alignment and allow it to be pushed
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... out away from the line edge so the ruby does not overflow. I call that shift base overflow.
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... That maintains the alignment between ruby and base.
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... The other way to do it is to keep the base alignment but relax the ruby alignment.
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... I call that shift ruby. The third option I defined was overflow, which does not relax
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... either constraint but allows the ruby to overflow the line area, in which case you have
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... to use the tts:overflow property.
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nigel: Do we need to strengthen any of the language in tts:overflow to cover this use
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... case? Right now there are no 'SHALLs' in tts:overflow, only 'SHOULD's.
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glenn: That's a good point. The question is here if you use overflow but the implementation
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... is always clipping then you're going to lose that.
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nigel: Do we know why there are only SHOULDs now?
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glenn: My recollection is that we weren't sure if implementations could do clipping so we
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... kept the language loose.
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... The CSS spec says "This level of the specification does not provide a mechanism to control this behaviour."
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... It turns out that this isn't sufficient for captions. We need a way to explicitly define this.
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atai2: So would the shift base extend the containing box?
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glenn: shift base would insert white space, i.e. padding, on the inside of that box to
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... move the base content across to maintain the ruby alignment that has been specified.
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... Then there's a question about where you allow overhang - everywhere or dependent on
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... the base. It turns out that the JLR document defines classes of characters where
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... overhang is permissible and where it is not permissible.
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http://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/#adjustments_of_ruby_with_length_longer_than_that_of_the_base_characters
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glenn: This shows the case when the ruby text is no larger than the corresponding base.
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... So there's no problem when the ruby is less than or equal to the base size. You get
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... the problem when the ruby requires more inline space than the base.
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... Fig 3.79 shows this. When you do allow overhang. In one case a hiragana ruby is
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... permitted to overlap a hiragana base, but not on a kanji base - doing the latter could
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... be misread as the ruby applying to the kanji character. Hence beneath figure 3.80
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... the points a and b describe the rules.
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... Fig 3.81 and 3.82 show this.
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nigel: Is this based on language dependent rules or do we need syntax to define it?
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glenn: Ruby is primarily used in Japanese, very rarely in Chinese and more rarely still
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... in Korean. Technically one could use the same layout features in all of those languages.
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... It's even potentially useful in other languages that don't normally use ruby, like for
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... annotations, like a scholarly piece on Greek, "interlinear text". To handle the