Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:22:57 -0800 From: "Murray Stokely" <murray@stokely.org> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Adding <acronym> elements to wlan Handbook section Message-ID: <2a7894eb0812101322o77b12fc9k8208f83d62481ad3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <878wqnafso.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <871vwfn418.fsf@kobe.laptop> <2a7894eb0812101310v2123a452q26b0e07630e7f209@mail.gmail.com> <878wqnafso.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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In that case this looks great to me. I agree with Manolis that adding
the role="definition" for the first instance of each acronym is
helpful. I really thought we were already doing this in parts of the
Handbook, but I may be misremembering.
- Murray
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:10:31 -0800, "Murray Stokely" <murray@stokely.org> wrote:
>> Is the stylesheet now smart enough to only markup the first occurrence
>> differently? I seem to recall these could get distracting if all
>> instances of an acronym are replaced (either with hyperlinks to
>> definition, or bold, or however we are currently rendering them).
>
> All the instances of am <acronym> are rendered in HTML as
>
> <acronym class="ACRONYM">FOO</acronym>
>
> with the current DSSSL code. We don't color or otherwise reformat
> either 'acronym' or '#acronym' in our current docbook.css stylesheet, so
> they are not distracting if the patch goes in.
>
> We might have to make DSSSL a bit smarter about what to send to the
> output HTML text if we start colorizing acronyms in CSS though.
>
>
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