On 26 Mar 2007, at 18:20, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Tina Holmboe wrote: > >> However, unless we actually /structurally/ differentiate between >> an acronym and an abbreviation there is no way that any browser can >> render them differently, aurally or otherwise. > > Why would that matter? An acronym is, by definition, a word. Why > would you need to specify that a word be rendered as a word? You > might say that it might be written in uppercase, e.g. "NATO", but > so might any word, when PEOPLE JUST SHOUT. It is also BBC house policy to render acronyms in lower case with an initial capital: NASA → Nasa, FEMA → Fema, PPARC → PParc … - Nicholas.
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