- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:41:21 -0700
- To: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Cc: Gunnar Bittersmann <gunnar@bittersmann.de>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>, public-i18n-core@w3.org
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:27 AM, "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote: > What Gunnar says is consistent with all of what I have seen in Switzerland. > There are some old-style indices that have separate entries for Ch, Sch, and > maybe Sp and St, but these are head items in indices, not parts of a > numbering system. > > There is only one correction I'd want to make, to what Tab wrote: > List numbering in German, for example, is strictly speaking not done using > the base English alphabet, but using the base German alphabet (which happens > to coincide with the base English one). It just happens that letters such as > ä, ö, ü, and ß, although essential for writing German, are not part of the > (basic) German alphabet. Thanks, Martin and Gunnar. Based on this, and Hakon's previous feedback, I'll stick with a single english-alphabet script in the default stylesheet. If any specific ones are pointed out to me as being needed, I'll add them; otherwise, authors can define their own with @counter-style when desired. ~TJ
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