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totsubo · 03-28-2013, 07:09 AM

I'm writing a Japanese book and am wondering how to add furigana (ruby) for the Kindle Paperwhite?

I know it can be done because I have some Japanese book with furigana. However I read the Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines clearly say it is not possible:

"There is no support for right to left vertical scripts and no support for Japanese Ruby script." (p. 11)

The guidelines are obviously wrong but I couldn't find anything in the mobi documentation either about furigana/ruby support.

03-28-2013, 07:09 AM	#1
totsubo Member Posts: 22 Karma: 475242 Join Date: Nov 2012 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	How to code furigana (ruby) for mobi / Paperwhite I'm writing a Japanese book and am wondering how to add furigana (ruby) for the Kindle Paperwhite? I know it can be done because I have some Japanese book with furigana. However I read the Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines clearly say it is not possible: "There is no support for right to left vertical scripts and no support for Japanese Ruby script." (p. 11) The guidelines are obviously wrong but I couldn't find anything in the mobi documentation either about furigana/ruby support.