List and list marker layout

[r12a]

During work on the article How to make list markers stand upright in vertical text a number of comments were made that contain useful information about how to style lists with counters in Japanese. This issue points to the more useful comments, so that they are not forgotten.

1. [questions/qa-upright-counters-in-vertical] The example looks unnatural i18n-drafts#621 (comment) Describes the various approaches used for numbered counters.
2. [questions/qa-upright-counters-in-vertical] Japanese vertical itemized lists  i18n-drafts#620 Provides detailed information about layout and spacing for list heads.
3. [questions/qa-upright-counters-in-vertical] Large number of items and CJK punctuation characters i18n-drafts#626. Code to create rotated parens above and below an upright counter.
4. [questions/qa-upright-counters-in-vertical] Round border of ::marker for circled decimal i18n-drafts#627. Code to create circled numeric counters using styling.

[yamahige]

Fyi, lists with counters, especially long ones, are often found in the endnotes and bibliographies of scholarly articles. Japanese vertically-set and free/open access samples can be found at J-STAGE.

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