- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 16:44:24 +0900
- To: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:22 AM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote: >> On May 19, 2014, at 11:18 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: >> If you want to provide "alt text" for the 'symbols' values, >> instead make a separate counter style with the words you want in >> 'symbols' and "speak-as: words", then set "speak-as: >> your-spoken-style;" in the real counter style. Xidorn provided >> several examples of this. > > This strikes me as somewhat convoluted, but mostly sufficient. > > One question I didn’t see answered (apologies if I missed it) was whether one could apply the lang selector to a counter style. For example, I want (>/<) symbols displayed in all locales, but I want the alt text (input/output) localized. > > If I’m reading Tab’s summary correctly, we’d have to have duplicated symbolic counter styles in order to use the localized speak-as value. > > @counter-style symbols-de { speak-as: alt-de; } > @counter-style symbols-en { speak-as: alt-en; } > @counter-style symbols-es { speak-as: alt-es; } > > Is that the intention? Yes. ~TJs
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