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Ruby characters, or furigana!
Ruby characters are primarily intended to be used for showing the pronunciations of Chinese characters ({汉|hàn}{字|zì} / {漢|かん}{字|じ}), but there is absolutely nothing stopping you from using ruby characters for whatever you like, as indeed many manga and occasionally anime often do. Seriously, if you watch anime, keep your eyes out for furigana! I can name several examples of interesting uses of furigana in manga and anime off the top of my head.
In HTML, ruby characters are written as 汉hàn; Lemmy added support for ruby characters I think in late 2023, and their markdown is quite simply {汉|hàn}. In the above comment, however, I decided to put spaces between all the letters in "RELATIVE CLAUSE" and "VOCATIVE" such that the letters would be evenly spread out, as otherwise it comes out as "{I'd like to fuck|RELATIVE CLAUSE}" where the words are just too far spaced out and it doesn't look good, or "{I'd like to fuck|RELATIVE-CLAUSE}" where there's too much empty space to the sides and it doesn't look good either.
Well now i'm using it to add notes to shitlib news I post. Like here: https://hexbear.net/comment/4820709
I'm sure I'll find other fun ways to use this
Cool, a new way to indicate {tangents|my unending autistic} without breaking up the flow of the sentence.
Hell yeah baby
That's a genuinely cool way to misuse those. I can see them being used as a whole new way to {communicate|shitpost}.
Might've looked better to write it as {communicate|⠀⠀S H I T P O S T⠀⠀}
If you space out the letters, you can use the Unicode character "Braille Pattern Blank" (⠀, U+2800) to adjust the character width by copying it on either side of the gloss: {communicate|⠀⠀S H I T P O S T⠀⠀}
Oh cool, I didn’t know there was Markdown for that.