- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:31:10 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Christos Cheretakis <xalkina@otenet.gr>
- Cc: Tim Bagot <tsb-w3-style-0005@earth.li>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Christos Cheretakis wrote: > Tim Bagot wrote: >> At 2002-12-11T18:54+0200, Christos Cheretakis wrote:- >>> The numbering schemes named lower-greek & upper-greek in the draft are >>> not used (and not even useful) in modern greek. Please, do not invent >>> them for us! >> They may not be used in Greek, but they are used elsewhere - not very >> often, but quite possibly more often than the ancient schemes. Perhaps >> they ought to be renamed (lower|upper)-greek-alphabetic or similar to >> reflect this? > That would be valid when you need a sequence of symbols, like the > names of variables in a mathematical theorem from your example, or > something similar. I still insist that it's not correct in a numbering > context, as it is with lists, where you are counting/assigning numbers > to the items the list contains. I have definitely seen English-context lists that use alpha-beta-gamma list "numbers". Typically this only occurs with deeply nested lists, or with endnotes. But it happens. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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