Fwd: [css3-lists] Khmer consonants as list markers

I'm forwarding this as I think this discussion would benefit from
expertise in this mailing list.

The original thread is at:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/thread#msg111

and you might want to follow up there.


Cheers,
Kenny

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [css3-lists]  Khmer consonants as list markers
Resent-Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:01:59 +0000
Resent-From: www-style@w3.org
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 22:01:34 +0100 (IST)
From: Tony Graham <tgraham@mentea.net>
To: www-style@w3.org

The current CSS Lists and Counters Module Level 3 draft [1] defines the
same sequence of numeric characters as both the 'cambodian' [2] and
'khmer' [3] list styles, but does not define a Cambodian/Khmer alphabetic
list style.

Page 63 of Franklin Huffman’s “Cambodian System of Writing“ [4] states:

   For the pagination preliminary to the main body of a book,
   and for listing major headings within a chapter, the
   consonants of the alphabet are used in their dictionary
   order...

My understanding is that an Khmer consonantal list style would be used by
Khmer speakers if it were available to them [5].

Can/should it be added to a future draft of css3-lists?

Regards,


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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-lists-20110524
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-lists/#cambodian
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-lists/#khmer
[4] http://www.pratyeka.org/csw/hlp-csw.pdf
[5]
http://inasmuch.as/2012/03/22/khmer-pagination/comment-page-1/#comment-8117

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