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Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 2004 07:50:12 +0000
From:      Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: RFC: initialisms and FDP
Message-ID:  <20040715075012.GD55440@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040715073027.GA725@zaphod.nitro.dk>
References:  <20040713074042.GA5126@abigail.blackend.org> <20040713170624.GU29928@submonkey.net> <20040713181500.GA10935@abigail.blackend.org> <20040715071709.GB55440@hub.freebsd.org> <20040715073027.GA725@zaphod.nitro.dk>

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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:30:28AM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> It's actually defined (to a degree) in HTML 4.  The title attribute on
> most tags can be used to create a single line mouseover text.
> E.g. see the language selection on http://www.freebsd.org/.  If we
> need multi-line I think it has to be done with JavaScript - at least I
> couldn't find a proper way the last time I looked.

Single-line is sufficient for just expanding acronyms.  I see that the
docbook dsssl stylesheets know how to use the <acronym> target
already.  I'll see if I can add a custom <acronym> handler to set the
title, and update the &nis macro I created as a test case.

Thanks for a the pointers.

       - Murray



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