Acronyms believed harmful

[Ceri Davies]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:37:04PM -0400, Leonard Zettel wrote:
> 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?

You'll need to check out a copy of the doc tree and add entries to the
glossary file
doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/glossary/freebsd-glossary.sgml.  See also
my mail to Bill Moran for areas to focus on.

Thanks for the help!

Ceri
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