Recommendation

Date: May. 31, 2001
Link: http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby/
Source Author or Organization: W3C

The Ruby specification extends XHTML to support "ruby text". Ruby text is a run of text that appears in the vacinity of another run of text, called "base text". Ruby text serves as either a pronounciation guide or an annotation mechanism. Ruby text requires markup in order to define the association between base text and ruby text. Such markup is defined in XML in such a way that can be usable with HTML.