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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
Not in an epub you don't. Sorry.
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Depends on what programs the readers are ultimately going to be using to read.
If this was a business environment and you knew that everyone was going to be non-ADE readers (iBooks, Readium, ...), or knowing that they were using the newest Kindles only, you can use fancy things like CSS Counters.
If you are selling it through B&N/Amazon/other stores (that are not under your direct control)... then yes... you would not be able to do a lot in EPUB.
Maximum compatibility, sadly means that hard-coding the numbers is your best bet.
In some cases (dropcaps, smallcaps, ...), you can use more complex CSS in your EPUBs,
BUT, you always have to keep in mind graceful degradation.