Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:37:04 -0400 From: Leonard Zettel <zettel@acm.org> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Acronyms believed harmful Message-ID: <200407091237.04562.zettel@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <20040709160642.GB29928@submonkey.net> References: <200407091038.52304.zettel@acm.org> <20040709160642.GB29928@submonkey.net>
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On Friday 09 July 2004 12:06 pm, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:38:52AM -0400, Leonard Zettel wrote: > > 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. > > > > 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. > > 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 > happen until the glossary is full. Help to fill it. > Love to! How? -LenZ- > Ceri
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