Hello --

I happened to notice these announcements on the WWW Consortium Web
site (http://www.w3.org).  It sounds quite interesting -- too bad
they couldn't have come up with a different gemstone :-)


  Ruby Annotation Working Draft Published

  16 February 2001: The Internationalization Working Group has released
  a Working Draft of Ruby Annotation, defining an XHTML module for ruby
  markup. Ruby is a short piece of text alongside base text, typically
  found in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide
  an annotation.  Read about the W3C Internationalization Activity.


  CSS3 module: Ruby Working Draft Published

  16 February 2001: The CSS Working Group has released a Working Draft
  of CSS3 module: Ruby, proposing a set of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  properties for ruby elements. Comments are invited on the
  www-style / w3.org (archive) public mailing list. Read about CSS level 3
  and visit the CSS home page.


David

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