DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: acronym

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Oleg Tkachenko <olegt@multiconn.com> was heard to say:
| How can I get <acronym> element to be in html like a real html
| acronym, e.g. <acronym title="Document Object Model">DOM</acronym> ?

There's no easy, inline way. The problem with the title attribute is that
it doesn't work in an I18N way (you couldn't put BIDI or Ruby in there, or
even other markup like <emphasis>).

A subelement inside acronym for this purpose doesn't seem very inviting.

If the acronyms are in a glossary, I suppose I'd do some fancy hackery to
make that work.

It's definitely a nice idea, but no good, general solutions spring to
mind.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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