Index talk:A Manual of the Foochow Dialect in Twenty Lessons.pdf

Has anyone scanned the pages missing from the PDF? Suzukaze-c (talk) 07:22, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * As far as I know, noone. Davidzdh (talk) 07:17, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Should we use ruby for characters and romanization?
In the original text, romanization is inline with the English text, and Chinese characters are overline directly above the romanized phrases.

At the moment, these have been all transcribed consecutively inline without being formatted in a special way.

To emulate the original, we could use ruby formatting like so:

Characters as ruby

5. The Possessive Case of diê nè̤ng俤𠆧, and diê siŏh ciáh俤一隻 , is formed by the addition of gì其. Whose is this Bible? cī siŏh buōng Séng-Gĭng sê diê nè̤ng gì.只一本聖經是俤𠆧其

Romanization as ruby

5. The Possessive Case of 俤𠆧diê nè̤ng, and 俤一隻diê siŏh ciáh , is formed by the addition of 其gì</rt>. Whose is this Bible? <ruby style="ruby-position:under;">只一本聖經是俤𠆧其<rt style="font-size:75%;">cī siŏh buōng Séng-Gĭng sê diê nè̤ng gì.</rt>

Caveats:

Kbseah (talk) 11:41, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * The ruby-position style parameter is not supported by many browsers (if we want the romanization to appear below characters as ruby)
 * If characters are ruby, they cannot be too small. But if they are too large, this introduces lots of white space between lines like in the original

Uncommon characters
For copy-paste when entering Chinese characters


 * 𠆧
 * nè̤ng


 * 㑚
 * nâ


 * 䟰
 * giàng


 * 仈
 * báik


 * 挪
 * nò̤


 * 乇
 * nó̤h


 * 𠋡
 * siăh


 * 昧
 * muôi


 * 恰
 * kák


 * 嚽
 * cuòi


 * ⿰亻鞋
 * â̤


 * 㬵
 * kă


 * 冥
 * màng


 * 仱
 * dăng


 * 伓
 * ng


 * ⿰亻西
 * sâ


 * 贃
 * téng


 * 逷
 * dâung


 * 俤
 * diê

Kbseah (talk) 15:44, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

formatting the vocabulary lists

 * 自家
 * cê-gă,


 * 本身
 * buōng-sĭng: oneself, own (reflexive pronouns)


 * 字典
 * cê-diēng: dictionary


 * 自家 cê-gă, 本身 buōng-sĭng: oneself, own (reflexive pronouns)
 * 字典 cê-diēng: dictionary

Left: current ; right: new proposal. (this is what i get for disliking tables and not being 100% faithful to the original formatting.)

@User:Kbseah Does this look good to you?

Fish bowl (talk) 03:25, 30 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Could we keep the colon at the end of the romanization, so it matches the source? Thanks for the suggestion, would help readability and avoid complicated table formatting! Kbseah (talk) 04:36, 30 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Since this syntax is for is the HTML "description list" tag, it seems like the MediaWiki designers opted to naturally use the colon to introduce the definition, so any other colon has to be wrapped in a nowiki tag. I'm not sure if it's worth it. Fish bowl (talk) 07:52, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

✅ Fish bowl (talk) 02:15, 5 September 2023 (UTC)