- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:45:06 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Christos Cheretakis <xalkina@otenet.gr>
- Cc: Web Style Sheets W3C Mailing List <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Christos Cheretakis wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Christos Cheretakis wrote: >> >> Given the mess here, would you be particularly opposed to making the >> *-modern-greek numbering styles be only defined in the range 1..89? > > Yes, and no. When you need a long list of numbers, that would probably > include any of the not-existing, or ambiguous positions, you'd use > decimal form instead. But the other representations still exist and > *are* used in their alphabetic form when referring to them. It seems extremely strange to me to have a system that is used to say something like "bla bla 88 bla bla" but if it the number is increased by two, it suddenly changes numbering system. > The number of the beast would be "chi xi sigma tau'" in modern greek > in any way. Sure, but it's not like anyone is going to use CSS counters to say the number of the beast. > So, if you want to make a note on that, I'd rather you said "it is > defined, but not used" for >= 90, than "is not defined". Would you be ok with that? My problem is that having a numbering system with a large numbers of holes in it is annoying to implement, ugly to specify, and disturbing to read. >> Ok, so for modern I won't mention numeral-sign, and I'll make the suffix >> ")". > > Yes, and no, again. Well, I can't say "yes and no" in the spec. Should the spec say that lower-greek and upper-greek end with the numeral sign, or not? What should it say the suffix is? How about ancient-greek? > For modern-greek, when used in a list, you would drop the > numeral-sign, [...] But, when used in generated content, ie, TOC, > chapter title numbering, etc., the numeral-sign has to be there. [...] Well, authors can always add the numeral sign manually, if they are using generated content. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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