Alphanumeric lists not possible in LaTeX and EPUB

[shimizukawa]

I discovered that it is possible to make alphanumeric lists in HTML like this:

#!rst

I. Schnittblumen

   a. Rosen
   b. Nelken
   c. Tulpen

A. Topfblumen

   i. Petunien
   ii. Geranien
   iii. Pelargonien

Unfortunately the output in LaTeX and EPUB is not what I expected. It is rendered more or less like a normal enumerated list. This can be an issue of EPUB and LaTeX.

Maybe this should be mentioned in the documentation, if it is not possible have alphanumeric lists in LaTeX and EPUB in the near future. As alphanumeric lists are not mentioned at all in the documentation I marked this a minor issue.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/issue/1431
• Originally reported by: Jan Ulrich Hasecke
• Originally created at: 2014-03-25T09:23:36.489

[shimizukawa]

From Georg Brandl on 2014-03-25 08:25:03+00:00

Hmm, that it works in html and not epub is strange. I'll have a look at the stylesheets.

LaTeX is independent of those two, so I can believe nobody implemented that.

[shimizukawa]

From Georg Brandl on 2014-03-25 08:29:47+00:00

OK, epub is fixed, latex needs a little more work.

[tk0miya]

Fixed by #5001!