CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

Annotations

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One can imagine how ruby glyphs can be applied to Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese.

Chinese text can be annotated with Pinyin or zhuyin, Korean text (that is, hanja) can

be annotated with hangul, and Vietnamese text (that is, ch Hán and ch Nôm) can be

annotated with Quc ng. In fact, Chinese text annotated with zhuyin characters—as

readings—is quite common.

Inline Notes—Warichu

Japanese text can be set as inline or inset notes, called warichu ( warichū) in Japanese.

e text for inline notes is the same as ruby glyphs (that is, half-size), but are set within

the text using two lines enclosed by a set of parentheses. Table 7-54 provides an example

of Japanese text that includes an inline note, set using Adobe Systems’  Pr6N R

(KozMinPr6N-Regular) typeface.

Inline note exampleTable 7-54.

Glyph string







  

While it is theoretically possible to fake kana, hangul, and ideograph ligatures using the

principles of inline notes, the results are far from being typographically pleasing. While

the glyphs used for inline notes are purposely and intentionally reduced in size, applying

the same technique for constructing ligatures will result in glyphs that do not match the

surrounding text, and will look more like inline notes, because that is precisely what they

are. Table 7-55 provides an example of genuine versus faked katakana ligatures in ...