RFC: initialisms and FDP

[Murray Stokely]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 08:15:00PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> You're right, I did not read carefully last commits.  However Murray's
> commit helps me to "bounce" on something I discreetly mentioned:
> NTP, SMTP, TCP etc... should be tagged (I mean replaced with an entity) ?
> What will be considered as an acronym?  Everything or just some terms?

I marked up the NIS in that chapter mainly because NFS was already
done and it just wasn't consistent, then after I got to about the 30th
occurrence and realized I wasn't nearly finished with the file I
created the ⋼ entity.

It would be really nice if we had some applications of all these
<acronym> tags before spamming our SGML files with them.  I think it
would be really cool if we had a mouse over rule for the HTML output
to display the expanded form of the abbreviation.  Also, the first
occurence in a file could point to the glossary as was mentioned.
Until we have some kind of application, I don't want to spend any time
adding <acronym> tags.

How are mouseover's defined these days?  Is this standardized in CSS2
or only a Javascript thing?  If it's in CSS2, then we could write some
simple xsl code to make a pass through the docs and output some rules
to append to docbook.css during the build.

   - Murray