- From: Ambrose Li <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:48:13 -0400
- To: "Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>
- Cc: "David Walbert" <dwalbert@learnnc.org>, www-style@w3.org
2008/6/30 Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>: > There is also the rule that numbers less than ten > should always be spelled out, so /if/ one were to > treat digits as letters for the purposes of "first-letter", > one would (in documents where this rule is observed) > be affording special treatment to the first of a sequence > of digits rather than the first and only digit ... But this is an English rule. In Chinese we don't have such a rule.. (As to what constitutes a letter in Chinese...) -- cheers, -ambrose The 'net used to be run by smart people; now many sites are run by idiots. So SAD... (Sites that do spam filtering on mails sent to the abuse contact need to be cut off the net...)
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