Re: [css-gcpm] String-set issues

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Imagine you have this:
>
> H1 { counter-increment: chapter }
>
> ...and there are 3 H1's on the page.
>
> I don't know when @top-center grabs counter values, but let's say it is
> right after everything on the page that increments counters has already done
> so. If that's the case, in your example,  the value of 'chapter' would have
> been incremented by the third H1. But maybe what you want is the chapter
> count and text from the first H1. In that case, you would write this:
>
> h1:first-on-page {
>     copy-into: myContents contents,
>             chapNum counter(chapter)
> }
>
> ...and keep the @top-center as I had it.
>
> Is that clear? It is to get the counter value as it is for the particular
> element you want, before it gets incremented to something else.

Very helpful. Thanks! Will look into how existing implementations pick
counter values when they vary across a page.

Dave