Ruby Text (furigana)

In printed Japanese texts (e.g., the Shinkaiyaku and Shinkodoyaku Bibles), you will find ruby text (in Japanese known as furigana or sometimes yomigana). Ruby text is used in East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). It appears as characters printed to the right of ideographic characters or compounds in a vertical line of text or above a horizontal line of text. (See here for an example.)

These characters tell the reader how the ideographic characters should be pronounced. Ruby text is enormously helpful for newer Christians who don't know Christian terminology and foreigners (e.g., missionaries) who do not speak Japanese as a first language. Characters in Japanese very often have multiple potential readings (often completely different pronunciations), so ruby text is a great help in reading and also in being able to easily look up terms.

Currently Accordance does not have the ability to show ruby text. But it would be wonderful if it did.

Here is a new thought about a possible way to implement ruby text. Some Accordance texts have an interlinear feature so that glosses can be shown with the original text. Could this foundation be used to show ruby text in Japanese translations? Those who need it could turn it on. Those who do not need it could turn it off. As long as the ruby characters align with the characters they "explain," it seems like it could work.