internationalising docbook by allowing ruby markup

[Michiel Kamermans <mkamerma@science.uva.nl>]

Hi,

I would like to recommend the docbook specification to be extended with 
the "ruby" element, as described in http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby/, in order 
to expand the international use for docbook markup to include asian 
material that requires direct annotated text, such as 
chinese/japanese/korean textbooks, manuals, technical documentation and 
possibly more.

For proper support it would make most sense to extend the docbook DTD to 
allow ruby to be used in all plain text contexts, excepting elements 
such as indexterms and glossterms.

Regards,

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Michiel Kamermans
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