- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:25:55 -0800
- To: Peter Moulder <peter.moulder@monash.edu>, www-style@w3.org
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Peter Moulder <peter.moulder@monash.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 01:39:36PM +0100, Håkon Wium Lie wrote: > >> - Issue: Is it possible to find a syntax for several list markers to be >> written in one string? One possible solution is: >> >> @counter-style lower-norwegian { >> type: alphabetic; >> glyphs: 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzæøå'; >> } > > With the above, the specification of where one entry ends and the next begins > is important, particularly considering characters in decomposed form. > > Would introducing space separation 'a b c ...' be acceptable, or do we > want to try specifying some other division of a string into entries? > > Spacing, while longer, would at least allow easy expansion to the odd > multi-character entry like Greek "στ", and might give less surprising > results for borderline cases like Αι or ij that are sometimes considered > a single character. Yes, this was brought up in the issue now marked in the spec. I suspect we'd have to define it in terms of grapheme clusters. Introducing spacing puts it closer to the normal syntax. > A vaguely related issue with the above syntax is distinguishing between > glyphs:'abc...' and glyphs:'•'. Should one of the keywords be changed, > say to glyphs-string? Or do we want to guess based on length of the > string (or presence of spaces) ? Guessing is definitely out. In the issue, I presented it with a disambiguating keyword. ~TJ
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