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jacquesh / foo_openlyrics

An open-source lyric display panel for foobar2000
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Ruby text for Japanese lyrics #358

Closed illeatmyhat closed 2 months ago

illeatmyhat commented 2 months ago

For those of us who aren't perfectly fluent in Japanese, it helps to have furigana above the kanji. In HTML, ruby text have dedicated tags, so it's probably not quite so easy to solve this text rendering problem. Example:

白(しろ)い犬(いぬ)と踊(おど)る夜(よる)

Furigana is rather easy to generate (though there can be false positives), so if this feature becomes available, I think it would find some usage.

jacquesh commented 2 months ago

I think this is beyond the scope of openlyrics. As you say it would be a significant complication on the rendering and is a language-specific feature (which I generally try to avoid, even for english).

I think you'd be better off modifying the lyrics to include the alternative text at the same timestamp (which you could always build a tool to do separately, if you say it can usually be generated, since lyrics are stored in readily-accessible standard places & formats).