- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 17:37:39 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 10:24 AM 30/01/98 -0500, Matthew Lye wrote: >Apologies, but this strikes me as a really neat problem. For many >acronyms a simple check of the phonemics (?) can determine whether it >should be parsed as a word or as 'letter-spelling'. An acronym should, by definition, be pronounced as a word. >Other acronyms may >require interpretation once or always: 'RAM', for instance, might be >read as 'Random Access Memory' the first time [with a little client-level >semantic sugaring: "...Random Access Memory, known as RAM,...". I >assume the tag supports a reference to the full word? <ACRONYM title="Random Access Memory">RAM</ACRONYM> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNNJWMg/JhtXygIx1AQGwcQL/UqJ1t7IbWXknFbgYBPnnQ9Zw4v18gFvv yNeOqbdHeeLKVnTh54D+A6rtrg90iyzJ2P8pyIoZINNbnAtin6pKJw0Af7ClYCay WTAo9vMHa/ZOsLGbfZSPOff9eBoKoi13 =EnUX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Liam Quinn Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/
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