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Subject: internationalisation after 17 years
Docbook has been around for 17 years, and it's *still* not properly internationalised. I've been waiting for the DocBook 5 specification in the hopes it would follow the W3C ruby annotation used in CJK languages but useful outside this context too, only to see that as of the most recent v5 specification there is still no such thing available in DocBook, making it impossible to write textbooks in English about Chinese or Japanese, or write full texts in these languages for all audiences. Can the ruby specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby/) *please* be just copied verbatim out of the w3c ruby annotation specification and added to docbook, with 'text' as parent of the ruby element, and as child of the rp, rb, and rt elements. Given that this has become used quite a bit on the internet as well means there is clear typographical styling avilable for it to, so that the docbook stylesheets can be extended for it too. Please, I just want to be able to write my textbooks without having to resort to modifying docbook and have it be rejected by docbook editors because the supposed standard is lacking a feature that a significant part of the publishing world needs. so an official request: please add 'ruby' annotatio to docbook 5 as soon as possible, as the current 'annotation' element is perfectly useless for this purpose. tomorrow would be nice, v5.0.1 would be acceptable, v5.1 would be too far in the future - docbook's been apparently actively kept away from use with languages such as Japanese for 17 years by now, why on earth is this allowed to persist. sincerely, but in the meantime actively looking for an alternative to docbook, -- Michiel Kamermans ,-------------------------------------------------------------- | Masters student AI at the University of Amsterdam [0024538] | http://www.nihongoresources.com `--------------------------------------------------------------
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