Proper ruby text (<rb>) syntax support in Markdown

[obskyr]

@amclees

It isn’t particularly suited for Chinese, but work fairly well with Japanese.

I thought about that, too. Since lenticular brackets are used in Chinese too, and Chinese is 100% hanzi, the 漢字【かんじ】 syntax could lead to surprises in Chinese text. That’s an argument against it. I don’t how much CommonMark cares about entirely CJK text, but hey. Since images and links are also double-brackets in CommonMark, only supporting a []{} / []【】 syntax wouldn’t be too bad.

@amclees

It might be worth pattern matching the text in the rt with the base text for Japanese.
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However, this adds a lot of potentially unnecessary bloat to a fairly simple feature and doesn’t really apply outside Japanese.

I’m also a bit apprehensive about this one. It’s sort of inconsistent. What if you wanted to write <ruby>振り向く<rt>ふりむく</rt></ruby>? Having that matching thing there would make that impossible. It’s also a kind of strange exception for the otherwise completely unambiguous bracket set syntax.

@amclees

Escaping 【】 doesn’t seem to be standard

What do you mean by that?