PDF: list markers export as selectable text

Squashed from #4098 onto main.
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duplicated, copied in the Layers panel, or taken out of a symbol or a placed file). A symbol made of a thread keeps the
numbers in the symbol's art.
The canvas, EPS, PDF and Type › Create Outlines draw the marker; in PDF it is a path, not text. Live SVG text writes the
marker's characters before the paragraph's text, except type on a path with a list, which it writes as outlines with a
warning. DXF writes the marker as a TEXT entity of its own, its characters in the order they are drawn. Legacy `.ai`
writes the paragraph's text without the marker and warns that bulleted and numbered lists are left out.
The canvas, EPS, PDF and Type › Create Outlines draw the marker. PDF writes the marker as text of its own, where the
canvas draws it, and a PDF viewer selects, copies and finds its characters. Each of its glyphs stands for the marker
character that the glyph's font maps to that glyph in its character map. Glyphs that an OpenType feature such as
oldstyle figures replaced stand for the characters left over, in order, when there are as many of those glyphs as
characters left over. A marker glyph that stands for no character, such as the missing-glyph box when no font has a
glyph for it, is drawn as a path. Live SVG text writes the marker's characters before the paragraph's text, except
type on a path with a list, which it writes as outlines with a warning. DXF writes the marker as a TEXT entity of its
own, its characters in the order they are drawn. Legacy `.ai` writes the paragraph's text without the marker and warns
that bulleted and numbered lists are left out.
Type › Bullets and Numbering › Apply Bullets and the canvas context menu's Bullets and Numbering › Apply Bullets run
`type.applyBullets {bullet?}` on the selected type's paragraphs, or on those the Type tool's selection touches. Without
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The Paragraph panel's Numbered List button, Type › Bullets and Numbering › Apply Numbers and the context menu's Apply Numbers (`text.setFormat {list, number}`, `type.applyNumbers`) make paragraphs a numbered list with the documented presets (1, A, a, I, i, 01, 001, and None, which turns the list off; [Bullets and numbering](https://web.archive.org/web/20250807202418/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/bullets-numbering.html), [Create bulleted or numbered lists](https://web.archive.org/web/20260417034638/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/edit-format-text/create-bulleted-or-numbered-lists.html)): each paragraph starts with its number and a period, counted through the list paragraphs of the story and its threaded frames, with the text and indents as in a bulleted list; letters go on from Z to AA, and roman numerals go on from III to IV, an empty paragraph is not numbered, and a paragraph in no list starts the count again at 1.
Type › Bullets and Numbering › Convert to Text (`type.convertListToText`, `text.convertListToText`) makes the bullets and numbers of the list paragraphs editable characters of their text ([Create bulleted or numbered lists](https://web.archive.org/web/20260417034638/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/edit-format-text/create-bulleted-or-numbered-lists.html), [December 2022 release notes](https://web.archive.org/web/20260203094741/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/whats-new/2023-1.html)): each marker becomes its characters and a tab at the start of its paragraph, in the marker's font, size and color, the list is turned off, and a left tab stop at the left indent keeps the text after the tab where it started; threaded type keeps the numbers its story counted.
The Type tool starts a list from the characters [Create bulleted or numbered lists](https://web.archive.org/web/20260417034638/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/design-with-text/edit-format-text/create-bulleted-or-numbered-lists.html) names (`text.startList`): a space typed on its own after `1.`, `1)`, `A.` or `A)` at the start of a paragraph in no list makes the paragraph a numbered list in 1, 2, 3 or A, B, C, and a space typed after `*`, `#`, `>` or `+` makes it a bulleted list with the filled dot. The typed characters are removed, and one Undo puts them back as text with no list. The same characters later in a paragraph, and pasted list characters, start nothing.
PDF export writes bullets and numbers as text, in the glyphs and at the places the canvas draws them, in area type, type on a path, right-to-left paragraphs and threaded frames, and a PDF viewer selects, copies and finds them; a marker glyph that stands for no character is drawn as a path.
The Character panel menu's Character Direction (with the Indic options; `text.setFormat {charDirection}`, `text.setRangeStyle {charDirection}`) sets the selected characters left to right or right to left inside their paragraph, as a Unicode bidi embedding: a date set Left to Right keeps its order in right-to-left text, and a word set Right to Left keeps the punctuation after it on its left. Default (the default) leaves the characters to the bidi algorithm; character styles and the native file keep the setting.
In vertical type, the Tabs panel names its alignment buttons Top-Justified Tab, Center-Justified Tab, Bottom-Justified Tab and Decimal-Justified Tab, in their tool tips and for screen readers, and labels the position field Y. In horizontal type the buttons keep the names Left-Justified Tab and Right-Justified Tab, and the field keeps the label X.
The Tabs panel's ruler is numbered in the General unit with the canvas rulers' label steps and a tick every tenth of a step. With the panel menu's Snap to Unit on, or Shift held, a tab stop placed by a click on the ruler or dragged on it lands on the nearest tick (`text.tabs.set`).