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February 21, 2018
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Chinese Pinyin Ruby Text

  • February 21, 2018
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Hey everyone,

I've tried to do some research on this, but I'm not finding much that is very helpful.

I'm currently typesetting a beginner's Chinese textbook designed for English speakers, and the author wanted to make use of ruby text above characters to help students have easy access to the pronunciation of each character.

I went ahead and changed my InDesign version to Chinese-which should not be a thing Adobe; if MS Word can have Ruby text, you should too, but I digress.

This gives me the option to do Ruby>Ruby... in the character panel, but no matter what setting I use, the Ruby Text will not appear. I've seen people say that using the Japanese Paragraph Composer resolved this problem for them, but there isn't a Chinese Paragraph Composer that I'm seeing? And also, it worries me because this document is both in English and Chinese, so I don't want to limit it to just Chinese.

Any tips?

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    adaml39282443
    Participant
    October 9, 2018

    Contact adobe’s asia-pacific supprt. Gwailows are clueless

    Mike Witherell
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 21, 2018

    Have you tried, for very limited amounts of text:

    Preferences > Advance Text Options > Use Inline Input for Non-Latin Text

    Mike Witherell
    jackgoodeAuthor
    Participant
    February 21, 2018

    This was already checked, and I tried unchecking it to no avail. Still no visible ruby text, unfortunately.

    Steve Werner
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 21, 2018

    Have you chosen the Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer from the Control panel flyout menu (or the Paragraph panel flyout menu)?