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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 05/22/07 10:43
Scripsit Marcellus:
> Why, if there are:
>
> upper-roman
> lower-roman and
> lower-greek
>
> list style types, is there no list-style-type: upper-greek in CSS?
If that's your question, why does the Subject line say "lower Greek list
type"?
Anyway, the explanation is that in texts in Latin letters, people have
sometimes used lowercase Greek letters for numbering things, but not
uppercase. I'd expect the Greek to use uppercase Greek letters for the
purpose, just as we use uppercase Latin letters, but CSS isn't really very
"internationalized": it reflects styling traditions in English-language
documents more than anything else, with casual "foreign" options thrown in.
> And, is there one in the CSS3 draft?
Well, you _could_ look at it yourself:
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-lists/#alphabetic
It's been in the CSS 3 Lists draft for over five years. Yet, the draft
hasn't progressed in the "standardization" path, and in principle, it might
change while I'm writing this message. After all, the draft itself says:
"This is a working draft and may therefore be updated, replaced or rendered
obsolete by other W3C documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use W3C
Working Drafts as reference material or to cite them as other than "work in
progress"."
What's far more important for most practical purposes, IE doesn't (even in
IE 7) support even lower-greek. Don't ask me why; the implementation should
be fairly trivial.
If you want to use Greek letters (lowercase or uppercase) as list markers,
use <ul> or <ol> with list-style-type: none and with the letters written as
list item content, e.g.
<li>α. bla bla bla</li>
or even
<li><span class="marker">α</span> bla bla bla</li>
so that you can style the markers if desired (you know, different color
etc.).
--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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