Re: Acronym standardisation

j <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:56:41 -0500
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Mikhail Capone wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Ditto. Plus, it's become the convention to embolden keywords (as 
Mikhail illustrates in his example), so it makes sense to me to make 
the expansion of the acronym follow the same pattern as the acronym.

-J