- From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:28:25 +0200
Nicholas Shanks: > I hope the following aids matters. Aids? :) > Situations where expansions of abbreviations are needed: > 1) People unfamiliar with the topic being discussed. This includes adhoc abbreviations, which I frequently use in table headers. > 2) Documents that exist as both a single page, and as multiple pages > 3) Documents that use the same acronym to mean different things in > different contexts/sections. > 4) Documents where the acronym and an identically spelled word appear. I forgot so far to mention my dearest English abbreviation, actually it is a (NIST-recommended) unit symbol and thus without the abbrev dot: 'in' for inch. Unit symbols and abbreviated function names (e.g. 'sin') also may need markup (and styling) to keep them upright inside italic mathematic text (not every italic math is a |var|). FWIW, I agree with Nicholas on everything else in his e-mail.
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