- From: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:12:40 -0700
- To: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Cc: W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CACQ=j+c7QjRirzLXuRLd0SW8pVrN0-tMOtY0mG-NuwmXE1e__w@mail.gmail.com>
See also the more general number to string conversion as well as an example of lower case classical greek numbering at [1]. αʹ, βʹ, γʹ, δʹ, εʹ, ϛʹ, ζʹ, ηʹ, θʹ, ιʹ, ιαʹ, ιβʹ, ιγʹ, ιδʹ, ιεʹ, ιϛʹ, ιζʹ, ιηʹ, ιθʹ, κʹ [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#convert On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Christoph Päper < christoph.paeper@crissov.de> wrote: > | @counter-style lower-greek { > | type: alphabetic; > | glyphs: … /* 'α' 'β' 'γ' 'δ' 'ε' 'ζ' 'η' 'θ' 'ι' 'κ' 'λ' 'μ' > | 'ν' 'ξ' 'ο' 'π' 'ρ' 'σ' 'τ' 'υ' 'φ' 'χ' 'ψ' 'ω' */ > | /* This style is only defined because CSS2.1 has it. > | It doesn't appear to actually be used in Greek texts. */ > | } > | … > | Issue: According to a native Greek speaker, the lower-greek and > | upper-greek styles aren't actually used. I've removed upper-greek > | for now, but kept lower-greek because CSS2.1 included the keyword. > | Do these have actual use-cases? > > They may be uncommon in (contemporary) Greek, but ‘lower-greek’ is > frequently used for numbering lower-level headings or in nested lists, e.g. > in mathematics (at least in German[y]). I believe I’ve also seen cases of > ‘upper-greek’; there is a LaTeX package at CTAN < > http://www.ctan.org/pkg/greekctr> to enable both, so there probably is a > desire to use uppercase Greek letters, too. > > Nota bene: despite their names implying otherwise, languages and scripts > are only loosely coupled, so even native speakers can be quite clueless > sometimes. >
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