Bug#931224: In default style, lettered lists come out as numbered
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 06:36:35PM +0100, Adam Barratt wrote:
>On Fri, 2019-06-28 at 15:43 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> See for example, the "footnote A" in
>> https://wiki.debian.org/GitPackagingSurvey
>> where this wiki source text
>>
>> > A. <<Anchor(noteA)>>As noted in the introduction [etc. ...
>>
>> is rendered like this by Firefox:
>>
>> | 1. As noted in the introduction, ...
>>
>> Despite this in the HTML:
>>
>> | ... <ol type="A"><li><p class="line891"><span class="anchor"
>> | id="noteA"></span>As noted in the introduction ...
>
>This appears to be due to the main Debian CSS setting "list-style-type:
>decimal" for OL elements.
ACK, I saw that earlier when I started digging. It's a bit
... artbitrary :-/
>That could be overridden on the wiki side by setting "ol[type=A]
>{list-style-type:upper-alpha;}" in one of the stylesheets that is
>applied later.
Right, or just fixed at the top level.
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