割注warichū Layout

What is Warichū?

Japanese term for a type of inline notes
Usage related to footnotes or marginalia, parentheticals
Also used in Chinese
Currently unsupported by CSS
- Maybe it's a new layout mode?
- Maybe it's a few missing independent features?

What Does It Look Like?

Basic Anatomy of Warichū

How Would it Work?

How do you set the number of lines (2)?
How do you get the right length?
Are the parentheses content or style?
How do you place the parentheses?
How do you size the parentheses?
Something similar to an inline-block with text-wrap: balance?
line-height, vertical-align, text-box-trim, text-spacing-trim: built-in or opt-in?

Line Breaking

Line Breaking—Multiple Lines

How Would it Work, generalized?

Same questions as before, plus fragmentation:

Some kind of inline-block with text-wrap: balance?
How do you set the number of lines?
How do you get the right length?
Are the parentheses content or style?
How do you place the parentheses?
How do you size the parentheses?
line-height, vertical-align, text-box-trim, text-spacing-trim: built-in or opt-in?

Precedent

InDesign
Illustrator
Microsoft Word
LibreOffice / OpenOffice
TeX/LaTeX
…

Priority

The frequency of use of the inline cutting note is not so high. However, the inline cutting note is very important for study guides, travel guides, reference books, encyclopedias and manuals, because it is very effective for inserting notes at the point in the text where they are needed. For these reasons, the priority assigned here is advanced.

割注warichū Layout