- From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@netimages.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:24:54 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Dave Raggett wrote: > > In the short term, it would be better to be able to indicate in > the markup that an abbreviation/acronym should be pronounced by > speaking each of the letters in turn rather than treating it as a > word. The most obvious name is SPELLOUT which according to the > Oxford English dictionary "make out (words etc.) letter by letter". > Perhaps the HTML 4.0 spec should replace ACRONYM by a new > attribute on SPAN, e.g. > > The <span spellout>BBC</span> tonight reported heavy > shelling on the Boznian capital. This sounds (no pun intended) more like a presentation issue. I think it would be more appropriate to use <SPAN CLASS=SPELLOUT>BBC</span> and an appropriate extension to the stylesheet language. -- Benjamin Franz
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