Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 02/19/06 14:02

On Sun, 18 Feb 2006, Paula Radetzky wrote:

> I am a linguist who works on aboriginal languages with very few
> speakers. I need to write down their folktales and translate *each*
> word separately, right under it. For example,
>
> Rubana-cu ya umusalu
> dawn-ed when rained
> 'When it dawned, it rained.'

It seems to me that Ruby annotation is just what you need for this.
http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby/

Examples here http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/unicode-example-ruby.html
work with MSIE for the moment. There is a (somewhat flakey) plugin
available for Mozilla.

For the time being, you could perhaps make PDF files to be viewed by
those whose browsers don't support it.

For authoring, other than hand-coding the tags, I'm aware that Amaya
says it supports authoring Ruby annotation, although I haven't tried
it.

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