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Date:      Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:04:41 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To:        "Rene Ladan" <r.c.ladan@gmail.com>
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Adding <acronym> elements to wlan Handbook section
Message-ID:  <871vwdahna.fsf@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <e890cae60812112351h226d57fja3c481c56d7f4a7b@mail.gmail.com> (Rene Ladan's message of "Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:51:07 %2B0100")
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On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:51:07 +0100, "Rene Ladan" <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am in favour of the full expansion, so that you can write
>
> <para>Using &acronym.wlan.wep; encryption is not really safe anymore,
>   but a lot of people use it anyway.</para>
>
> This form is shorter and we don't have to write the word "acronym"
> three times.
>
> Maybe the acronyms can link to the glossary of the Handbook as well?

That's an interesting idea :-)

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:58:28 +0100, Gabor PALI <pgj@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Maybe you can have different versions in the .ent file, like you did
> in case of mailing lists (defer the design decisions :)):
>
> <!ENTITY acronym.wlan.wep '<acronym role="Wired Equivalent Privacy">WEP</acronym>'>
> <!ENTITY acronym.wlan.wep.name '<acronym>WEP</acronym>'>

Heh, cool!  I'll try to update the patch to include entities like this.

Thank you both for the ideas.




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