Re: [predefined-counter-styles] Should we add more Latin counter styles?

Fraktur typesetting had precise rules when to use antiqua. It was 
their version of italics. Foreign words, for example, were set in 
Antiqua. While I'm familiar with the use of Fraktur for mathematical 
variables, I can't recall any instance where it might have been used 
in counter.

Not having both 'i' and 'j' in a list is something that I've seen 
quite often, not limited to ancient texts, but driven by the desire 
not to have two easily confused labels. 'u' and 'v' are pretty far 
down (which limits the source for potential examples to very long 
lists). For old lists that use the pure Latin alphabet, 'w' would not 
exist.

Whether Swedish lists do (or used to) conflate 'v' and 'w' (not 'u' 
and 'w') in list counters is something I don't know. In general, the 
sorting order has to explicitly account for everything in the core 
alphabet, but counter styles have no such requirement.

There are quite a few languages that use the Latin script and some use
 a very limited number of the letters 'a-z'. The latter would be the 
most intriguing cases, but languages for which just a few of the Latin
 letters are not used natively are more common. 

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