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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:00:05AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > >   Add a role attribute to the NIS acronym so that we can render HTML
> > >   that displays a mouseover with the full text 'Network Information
> > >   System'.  This is a proof of concept.  Stylesheet support coming next.
> > >   
> > 
> > Nice idea!
> 
> Will it work if I move my mouse on the printed pages?  Now that
> would be something!  Otherwise, this is a nice idea but it
> provides nothing for printed output.  Should we continue to

I think my commit messages made that pretty clear.  They spoke
specifically of HTML output display.  As Hiten and others have said,
we of course should continue expanding acronyms on first use.

> mark things up with full text for first acronym use?

This is a proof of concept.  Right now we have no applications of the
<acronym> tag so there is little utility in using it.  This is the
first application.  Is this HTML application worth spamming our SGML
files with <acronym> tags?  Maybe not, but maybe it would once the
automatic glossary links or another application is also working (again
only for HTML output).

I can't think of any way the print output could benefit from <acronym>
tags, but that is kind of irrelevant.  The point is that it doesn't
harm the print output in any way.  Just like the <colspec> tags help
the print output but don't harm the HTML output.

     - Murray