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[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/18/2012 06:21 PM, Tony Pursell wrote:
> Numbers are best because we only have a Tex markup for a numbered list
> that might be used to cross refer to a graphic.  I also think that there
> may be less problems with translation.  (Here's the start of the
> alphabet in Welsh, for instance: A B C CH D DD E F FF G GH - so letters
> do not always have the advantage of being single characters)

Ease of translation is a very good point, thanks.


> I also think that a graphic with more than a few numbered items,
> certainly if more than 9, would be very confusing.

Yes, above 5 it starts to become painful, I'd say.


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