Re: [css-counter-styles] allow use of CSS4 "alt" property with @counter-style/symbols

Did a solution for this problem ever make it into a draft? It seems to have been forgotten.

Referencing the original thread:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014May/thread.html#msg146

> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 4:29 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> If we were going to address this directly, my thought would be to add
> >> a class of 'alt-*' descriptors that must match up index-for-index with
> >> the 'symbols' or 'additive-symbols' descriptor.  Then you could do:
> >>
> >> @counter-style io {
> >>   system: cyclic;
> >>   symbols: '⋗' '⋖';
> >>   speak-as: words;
> >>   alt-en: "Input: ", "Output";
> >>   alt-es: "Entrada: ", "Salida: ";
> >>   alt-de: "Eingang: ", "Ausgang: ";
> >> }
> >>
> >> When speaking a counter-style, if an appropriate alt-* descriptor
> >> exists whose language descriptor matches the element's language (using
> >> the standard :lang() matching rules), it uses those symbols for
> >> reading rather than the ones specified in 'symbols'.  That's pretty
> >> simple to deal with.
> >
> >
> > If we truly want to add "alt", I don't think we need to make it a class of
> > descriptors. Simply using "alt" with "extends" system like what we currently
> > do is sufficient. It has simplified the case to:
> >
> > @counter-style io-en { system: extends io; alt: "Input: " "Output: " }
> > @counter-style io-es { system: extends io; alt: "Entrada: " "Salida: "; }
> > @counter-style io-de { system: extends io; alt: "Eingang: " "Ausgang: "; }
> 
> This approach means that you have to use :lang() selectors in every
> single place you want to use the counter style.  That seems like a bad
> thing to require if we're trying to make this case easier.  I'd prefer
> to either keep it how it is (somewhat verbose, but built on existing
> functionality) or make it as easy as possible to address; sitting
> somewhere in the middle isn't worthwhile imo.
> 
> > As Reece said, authors may also want to have different
> > prefix/suffix/negative for different languages. I don't see any difference
> > from usecase between the proposed "alt" and those descriptors.
> 
> True, that suggests that we probably want to hold off on 'alt' and
> design it better in the next version.
> 
> ~TJ

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