- From: asmusf via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:19:14 +0000
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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. -- GitHub Notification of comment by asmusf Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/predefined-counter-styles/issues/3#issuecomment-239491177 using your GitHub account
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