Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:11:58 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acronyms believed harmful Message-ID: <20040709171158.GE29928@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20040709160642.GB29928@submonkey.net> References: <200407091038.52304.zettel@acm.org> <20040709160642.GB29928@submonkey.net>
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On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 05:06:42PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:38:52AM -0400, Leonard Zettel wrote:
>=20
> > Things like DTD are not English, they
> > are jargon! They place an unnecessary
> > burden on the reader. This burden
> > falls most heavily on newbies and
> > (I would imagine) people to whom
> > English is a second (or third or fourth)
> > language - exactly the people who
> > most need the help of clear documentation.
> >=20
> > At a minimum I plead for the following rule:
> > all uses of acronyms in any document
> > should include the term fully spelled out
> > at the first appearance of said acronym.
>=20
> Well, there's a work in progress(ish) to have the first use of an
> acronym expand to a link to it's entry in the glossary. This can't
^^^^
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Ceri
--=20
It is not tinfoil, it is my new skin. I am a robot.
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