Posted by Ben C on 05/22/07 12:01

On 2007-05-22, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> 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

Yes, they are used like that. Books of Homer for example are numbered
"A", "B", "G(amma)" ... up to Omega and in many editions these numbers
are written at the top of each page in capital Greek letters.

You wouldn't put each book in its own <li> but you might want to write a
summary like:

A The Quarrel
B The Catalogue of Ships

etc.

for which upper-greek might be quite appropriate.

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