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Added an issue about Hakon's suggestion for a shorthand version of @counter-style.
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<h1>CSS Lists and Counters Module Level 3</h1>
- <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=longstatus-date>Editor's Draft 3 November
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2011</h2>
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be "decimal", "default", "inherit", "initial", "inside", "none", or
"outside"; otherwise the @counter-style is invalid and must be ignored.
+ <div class=issue>
+ <p>Hakon suggests adding a shorthand version of @counter-style that just
+ takes a name and a set of glyphs, and automatically treats them as a
+ symbolic style (similar to the defaults for symbols()). In other words,
+ saying something like this:</p>
+
+ <pre>@counter-style footnotes "*" "+" "-";</pre>
+
+ <p>would be identical to this:</p>
+
+ <pre>
+@counter-style footnotes {
+ type: symbolic;
+ glyphs: "*" "+" "-";
+}</pre>
+
+ <p>I'm not sure if this is necessary, but I'm not against it either. I'd
+ probably also allow an "as <type>" tacked on at the end, so it's
+ basically just the contents of the symbols() function. Hell, maybe even
+ just use the symbols() function directly, like:</p>
+
+ <pre>@counter-style footnotes symbols("*" "+" "-" as repeating);</pre>
+ </div>
+
<h3 id=counter-style-type><span class=secno>8.1. </span> Counter
algorithms: the ‘<a href="#descdef-type"><code
class=property>type</code></a>’ descriptor</h3>
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"inside", "none", or "outside"; otherwise the @counter-style is invalid and
must be ignored.</p>
+ <div class='issue'>
+ <p>Hakon suggests adding a shorthand version of @counter-style that just takes a name and a set of glyphs, and automatically treats them as a symbolic style (similar to the defaults for symbols()). In other words, saying something like this:</p>
+
+ <pre>@counter-style footnotes "*" "+" "-";</pre>
+
+ <p>would be identical to this:</p>
+
+ <pre>
+@counter-style footnotes {
+ type: symbolic;
+ glyphs: "*" "+" "-";
+}</pre>
+
+ <p>I'm not sure if this is necessary, but I'm not against it either. I'd probably also allow an "as <type>" tacked on at the end, so it's basically just the contents of the symbols() function. Hell, maybe even just use the symbols() function directly, like:</p>
+
+ <pre>@counter-style footnotes symbols("*" "+" "-" as repeating);</pre>
+ </div>
+
<h3 id='counter-style-type'>
Counter algorithms: the 'type' descriptor</h3>
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