- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:44:10 -0800
- To: Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In the current draft, the algorithm of system 'symbolic' seems to be > incorrect. We use the style "footnote" defined in the spec for > example: > > Let counter value = 1, N = 4, then > > 1. chosen symbol = symbol(1 mod 4) = symbol(1) = ⁑ (SHOULD be '*') > 2. representation length = floor( (1 - 1) / 4 ) = 0 (SHOULD be 1) > 3. S = representation length * chosen symbol = (empty sequence) > > The correct algorithm should be: > > Let N be the length of the list of counter symbols, value be the > counter value, S initially be the empty string, and symbol(n) be the > nth counter symbol in the list of counter symbols (0-indexed). > > 1. Let the chosen symbol be symbol( (value - 1) mod N). > 2. Let the representation length be ceil(value / N). > 3. Append the chosen symbol to S a number of times equal to the > representation length. > > Finally, return S. Oh jeez, how did I get this so wrong? That's embarrassing. ;_; Fixed, thanks. ~TJ
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