- From: Grant, Melinda <melinda.grant@hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:37:55 +0000
- To: "Michael Day" <mikeday@yeslogic.com>, <www-style@w3.org>
Michael said: > David said: > > No, I'm saying that the implied counter would increment no > matter what > > the counter-increment property says, so an author who wants to undo > > the increment would use -1. (But the better way would > still be to use > > a different counter.) > > That's not how we do it in Prince, we let the user override > automatic increments by specifying an increment of zero for > that counter. It seems logical, as it avoids introducing the > concept of an unchangeable shadow increment that can't be > directly modified, but only canceled out. css3-lists seems to support Prince's approach, given this: "The list-item counter is a real counter, and can be directly affected using the 'counter-increment' and 'counter-reset' properties. It can also be used in the counter() and counters() function forms." Do we expect to revisit this? Best wishes, Melinda
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