About e.g and i.e.

• From: Pasquale Popolizio <pasquale@osservatoriosullacomunicazione.com>
• Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:35:34 +0100
• To: <public-wai-eo-lexicon@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <BE0DB366.6CC9%pasquale@osservatoriosullacomunicazione.com>

Hi Henk, hi all,

about my suggestion to change 'e.g.' into 'for example'.

I think that also 'i.e.' can be replaced with 'that is'.

'E.g.' is for the sentence 'exempli gratia' and 'i.g' is for Latin 'id est'.

So when we write a English document (xml:lang="en"), when we find 'e.g' and
'i.e' we would must write:

text, <acronym xml:lang="la" title="exempli gratia">e.g.</acronym> text
better way

text, <acronym xml:lang="la" title="id est">i.e</acronym> text better way

Or with <abbr>, depending in XTML x what element will stay.

And I think it's vey boring.



Regards,
Ciao



Pasquale

Received on Friday, 14 January 2005 16:36:06 UTC