[Suggestion] "Word wise" for Koreader

[Frenzie]

All three of those are already supported, provided you preprocess the document with something like the aforementioned WiseCreator, adapted so that it outputs something KOReader can display (i.e., option A, B, and C, as well as D — directly after). I also expressed my opinion that footnotes (option A) would be preferable regardless of ruby support.

[Frenzie]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

It'd be possible to somewhat mimic Word Wise with <ruby> tags. (For a proof-of-concept see this old post.)

Unfortunately, crengine doesn't support <ruby> tags.

A bit of a tease since we won't bump the crengine submodule for another week, but see the screenshot for the new ruby support.

The visual effect was already fairly easily possible on current releases with some clever user style tweaks for a little while now, even using the ruby element, but this real support is better.

That will make KOReader compatible with ruby-using tools like https://github.com/xnohat/wordwisecreator without any adjustments, although I still think footnotes or marginal glosses would look better.