RE: [docbook] Acronym Expansion (was RE: [docbook-tc] DocBookTechnical Committee Meeting Minutes: 15 December 2010)

["Rowland, Larry" <larry.rowland@hp.com>]

This comes under best practices, since no changes are necessary to the schema 
or the transforms.  It would probably be a good idea to add an example of this 
under termdef in the definitive guide and reference it from both acronym and 
abbrev.

This does, however, place the burden on the author to make sure that any 
expansion of the term provided in the glossary is consistent with that 
provided in the body of the document.  I would likely use an entity for the 
contents of the glossterm and the termdef in a 4.x document based on DTDs.  
It becomes slightly more challenging in 5.0 unless the transclusion proposal 
being discussed is implemented (adding a DTD just to get entities seems like 
a kludge to me).

Regards,
Larry Rowland

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Pawson [mailto:davep@dpawson.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:43 AM
To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook] Acronym Expansion (was RE: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 15 December 2010)

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:31:44 +0000
"Rowland, Larry" <larry.rowland@hp.com> wrote:


> <para>We use modulated <termdef>Light Amplification through
> Stimulated Emission of Radiation (<acronym>LASER</acronym>)</termdef>
> technology for short-haul data links.</para>
> 
> If you prefer the acronym first, it still works.  You can also move
> the acronym outside the termdef, but this keeps them together.  This
> solution requires no changes to stylesheets or improvements in screen
> reader technology.

+1 on the solution, propose that the acronym come first and that
both are in the termdef markup.




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regards 

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Dave Pawson
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