Re: Acronym standardisation

Mikhail Capone wrote:
> 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.
I agree with Mikhail, bold looks much better.

David