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As a Japanese learner, I think it would be really helpful if posts could contain ruby text. While I would use it mostly for Japanese, it's not something specific to it. I can see it being used for ...
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Moshi
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2020-10-21T01:10:55Z (about 4 years ago)
Feature request: Ruby text
As a Japanese learner, I think it would be really helpful if posts could contain [ruby text](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_character). While I would use it mostly for Japanese, it's not something specific to it. I can see it being used for other languages as well, where currently I see people adding romanizations after the text, eg. [here](https://languages.codidact.com/questions/277126).
While possibly a bit of a stretch for our current software, we could also try to add in a shortcut for ruby text. [Japanese.SE has a script](https://japanese.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/806/how-should-i-format-my-questions-on-japanese-language-se/807#807) that converts `[text]{gloss}` into something that isn't html ruby but functions pretty much the same[^1]; we could make something similar.
[^1]: It also has various other features that I feel would improve this site a lot, such as IPA support, but that's a different discussion