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| ==== What is this useful for ==== | ==== What is this useful for ==== |
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| For fanfic writers mostly, a ruby annotation tag can be useful in any of four ways. Most of them relate to one aspect of writing and worldbuilding that is not often given much consideration: if you want to add a note regarding some elements in your story, such as footnotes, translations or definitions of new terms, pronounciation guides, or reminders, it can be the case that the explanation you are going to give does not go into the story itself, but rather several lines or even [i]pages[/i] ahead, in an Author's Notes section, severely breaking immersion and forcing readers to basically keep two copies of your work open to course about. I've actually expanded on this subject in [url=https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=449153]my thread "Writing† and Explaining in the Cybermesh¹: How to Make it Accessible²?"[/url]. | For fanfic writers mostly, a ruby annotation tag can be useful in any of four ways. Most of them relate to one aspect of writing and worldbuilding that is not often given much consideration: if you want to add a note regarding some elements in your story, such as footnotes, translations or definitions of new terms, pronounciation guides, or reminders, it can be the case that the explanation you are going to give does not go into the story itself, but rather several lines or even [i]pages[/i] ahead, in an Author's Notes section, severely breaking immersion and forcing readers to basically keep two copies of your work open to course about. I've actually expanded on this subject in [[https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=449153|my thread "Writing† and Explaining in the Cybermesh¹: How to Make it Accessible²?"]]. |
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| But fear not! Ruby annotations make this so much easier: | But fear not! Ruby annotations make this so much easier: |