Re: Acronym standardisation

Thomas Conneely wrote:
> We need to settle on a standard method of formatting acronym 
> translations e.g GNU => GNU Not Unix, different people favour different  
> ways of formatting them, I prefer italicising each initial letter:
> /G/NU /N/ot /U/nix
> others put the whole thing in bold italicising the initials (this is 
> unreadable on my browser)
> */G/NU **/N/ot/ /**/U/nix*
> and other embolden the initial letters.
> *G*NU* N*ot *U*nix
> 
> So which is it to be??? I personally favour italicised initials.
> --tom.c

Personally I favour bolding the initials.

'''GNU''' is a recursive acronym for '''G'''NU's '''N'''ot '''U'''NIX.

Italicizing only one letter of a word doesn't work very well, IMO. Just 
a visual preference.


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Mikhail / http://MikeCapone.blogspot.com