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Date:      Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:51:11 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To:        Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Adding <acronym> elements to wlan Handbook section
Message-ID:  <8763lq14yo.fsf@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <49403656.4020303@gmail.com> (Manolis Kiagias's message of "Wed,  10 Dec 2008 23:36:22 %2B0200")
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:36:22 +0200, Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've seen it in the Handbook, but in very few parts. It is also rendered
> very nicely, and is not at all distracting. (A lightweight, dotted
> underline). See here for an example:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ftp.html

That looks good.  I've started pushing to hg.hellug.gr some commits that
add this sort of role="" attribute to the wlan section :-)

Manolis, I have a question that is mostly a style issue though.

There are some compound acronyms in the wlan section, i.e. "WPA-TLS".
Would you prefer a separate <acronym> for "WPA" and "TLS" like

    <acronym role="Wi-Fi Protected Access">WPA</acronym>-<acronym
      role="Transport Layer Security">TLS</acronym>

or a single element like

    <acronym role="Wi-Fi Protected Access / Transport Layer
      Security">WPA-TLS</acronym>

The first seems more logical, and it would fit nicely with the set of
acronym entities (acronyms.ent) I proposed in another email of the
thread (eg. we won't have to introduce a new, special entity for
&acronym.wlan.wpa-tls; but we can reuse the WPA and TLS entities).  I am
not sure if it would result in aesthetically pleasing output when the
dotted underlines appear in separate words though.




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