Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:21:46 +0000 From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Mouseover definitions for acronyms (was Re: RFC: initialisms and FDP) Message-ID: <20040718132146.GA83265@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040718100224.GA84500@abigail.blackend.org> 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> <20040715083333.GA62713@hub.freebsd.org> <20040718100224.GA84500@abigail.blackend.org>
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On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 12:02:25PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> Well for me "it looks weird", I mean I see too much dotted underlines :)
> just look at the 23.4.2 section for example... or some titles. Many
> different acronyms in one text could lead to something "difficult" to
> read.
> I think rendering the first three ones should be enough, if one needs to
> know the meaning of NIS, it's at the beginning of the text not at the
> end.
Agreed.
> Now an "innocent" question: if we use first four acronyms (1 for the
> glossary, the rest for the mouseover thing), do we need to tag the
> remaining ones (with an entity or <acronym> tags)? I'm thinking about a
> section not a whole chapter.
We could handle this in either the stylesheets or in the SGML files.
I personally think that there is no need to add the <acronym> tags
throughout the chapter -- just the first four will suffice.
- Murray
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