April 6, 2001
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That fact that I just spent the last twenty minutes or so diving through the new XHTML 1.1 recommendation over at the W3C probably says more about me than I care to admit. At least I managed to pull one lovely, burnished nugget of previous unknown information from those pages. Check out the details of the proposed Ruby Annotation Module. There are some sweet things you can do with Ruby tagged text, based on the few examples shown. And of course, the typographer in me found the following bit of background information just as interesting:
“The name “ruby” in fact originated from the name of the 5.5pt font size in British printing, which is about half the 10pt font size commonly used for normal text.”
Nice. And Ruby has such a unassuming charm to it. After all, they could have named it after some other pretentious, historical type size like Paragon or Brilliant or even Great Primer.
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