- From: Peter Moulder <peter.moulder@monash.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:51:52 +1100
- To: Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:08:53PM +0000, Reece Dunn wrote: > Looking at the way numbers are spoken (e.g. "one hundred and sixteen" for > 116 in British English), the way these are constructed is similar to the > way ethiopic-numerals are formed [1]. The only difference is that Western > numbers are split in groups of 3, whereas Ethiopic numbers are split into > groups of 2. Also, Korean splits numbers into groups of 4. > > Therefore, instead of having a specific ethiopic system, they could be > expressed using something like |system: natural; group-length: 2;|. > > This will also help with the CJK extended sets as well, as looking at > section 6.1.2, the tables use production rules for handling group-length 4 > numbers. That would be good if it can be done. Can you have a go at specifying an algorithm and corresponding tables that would cover both ethiopic and CJK styles? Or even if it could cover both British english and just one of the ethiopic/CJK complex styles, then that would give some feeling that it might be useful for some other numbering system more likely to be found in lists than english words. pjrm.
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