- From: Chester, Bernard <BChester@saros.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 16:26:25 -0800
- To: "'Bert Bos'" <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>
- Cc: "'www-international@w3.org'" <www-international@w3.org>
Bert: I've been down roads like this. I'd advise an approach that avoids trying to enumerate all of the numbering styles possible, why not come up with a scheme for permitting a numbering scheme to be described? And then a subset which are "known" and can be referred to by a descriptor? > -----Original Message----- > From: Bert Bos [SMTP:Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr] > Sent: Friday, January 09, 1998 2:39 AM > To: bernardc@saros.com > Subject: International numbering styles > > The CSS2 specification needs a way to specify numbering styles for > lists and other things, that goes beyond the small set that CSS1 > provides. I'm trying to find out how people number things in different > languages, how much of that we need in CSS, and finally, how to refer > to the numbering schemes in the CSS language. > > CSS1 has the following: > > 'decimal' 1, 2, 3, 4,... > 'lower-alpha' a, b, c, d,... > 'upper-alpha' A, B, C, D,... > 'lower-roman' i, ii, iii, iv,... > 'upper-roman' I, II, III, IV,... > > I can see some variations: > > 01, 02, 03, 04,... > aa, ab, ac, ad,... > > And these are more difficult: > > one, two, three,... > first, second, third, fourth,... > un, deux, trois, quatre,... > > Different alphabets: > > [alpha], [beta], [gamma], [delta],... > > Symbols: > > [asterisk], [dagger], [double-dagger], [paragraph-sign],... > > > > > Bert > -- > Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ > http://www.w3.org/people/bos/ W3C/INRIA > bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 > +33 (0)4 93 65 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France > +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 (<--- after 5 Jan 1998)
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