Bug#931224: In default style, lettered lists come out as numbered

"Adam D. Barratt" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <1561743395.23284.24.camel__45070.5844721355$1561743578$gmane$org@adam-barratt.org.uk>
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. 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.

Regards,

Adam
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