- From: Christos Cheretakis <xalkina@otenet.gr>
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:47:12 +0200
- To: Web Style Sheets W3C Mailing List <www-style@w3.org>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Christos Cheretakis wrote: > > They use decimal!!! I'm not sure whether there's a tradition to use > greek numbering in front- or back-matters, or appendices. I'll have to > ask somebody who knows better and come back with an answer... > Checked, and here I am, again ;-) Scientific publications do use such a distinct numbering style in their front matters, but I've got to none where the number of pages exceeds about 30. > > As I said, when you need long sequences of numbers, you simply use > decimal. Maybe the Bible or similar religious publications would use > greek-style, but they'd certainly use the ancient. Will check and follow > up. > In the Bible, books & chapters are numberd using the alphabetic form, but lines are numbered decimal. C/ -- Λες κι η στάθμη της αγάπης πάει να βρει /"\ Πόσοι κρύβονται στη λάσπη θησαυροί ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / Πως κοπήκανε στα δάχτυλα οι σταυροί against HTML email X Γι' ανθρώπων έργα... & microsoft attachments / \
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