Editing Ruby character (section)

== History ==
{{see also|Ruby (typography)}}
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In British typography, ''[[Ruby (typography)|ruby]]'' was originally the name for type with a height of 5.5 [[point (typography)|points]], which printers used for interlinear annotations in printed documents. In Japanese, rather than referring to a font size, the word became the name for typeset ''furigana''.  When transliterated back into English, some texts rendered the word as ''rubi'' (a typical [[romanisation]] of the Japanese word {{lang|ja|ルビ}}, instead of {{lang|ja|ルビー}} (''rubī''), the expected transliteration of ''ruby''). However, the spelling "ruby" has become more common since the [[W3C]] published a recommendation for ''ruby [[markup language|markup]]''. In the US, the font size had been called "[[Agate (typography)|agate]]", a term in use since 1831 according to the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]''.