Re: Abbreviations and Acronyms: [techs] Latest HTML Techniques Draft

Le 11 d=8Ec. 2003, =88 09:32, Christoph P=8Aper a =8Ecrit :
>> See HTML 4.01
>
> The specification has been proven misleading and self-contradictory in=20=

> this regard more than once.

Yes it was my initial point. :)
Read all the links I have given.

> Or something more specialised for this job than (an enhanced version=20=

> of) CSS, like a CSV file or even some XML application.

CSS3


>> You can add on the top of that for example, that you have in fact
>> in french, three different things abbreviation, acronyms and "sigle".
>
> Is a "sigle" an initialism or something different?

French Definition:

* abr=8Eviation  n. f.
=A5 v. 1450; =C7 texte abr=8Eg=8E =C8 1375; bas lat. abbreviatio

2=AC Removing of letters in a word, words in a sentence to write faster=20=

or to take less space.

Abr=8Eviation de
	Mademoiselle en Mlle,
	de kilom=8Ftre en km,
	de c'est-=88-dire en c.-=88-d.
The abbreviation is always pronounced as the full word. Liste des=20
abr=8Eviations.


* acronyme  n. m.
=A5 1970; english. acronym =C7 word composed with Initials or syllabs or=20=

syllabs of several words =C8, from acro- and -onym =C7 nom =C8, d'apr.=20=

homonym

Linguistic. Sigle* pronounced like a common word. =C7 Ovni =C8 (NdT =
means=20
UFO) and =C7 sida =C8 (NdT means AIDS) are acronyms. =D0 Word composed =
with=20
syllabs of several words. mot-valise. English acronyms used in french=20
(ex. sonar).


* sigle n. m.
=A5 1712; lat. jurid. sigla =C7 signes abr=8Eviatifs =C8

1=AC Hist. Initial used as an abbreviation. The "sigles" of ancient=20
manuscripts.

2=AC Ling. Series of Initial of several words which makes a unique word=20=

pronounced letters by letters. O. N. U. is pronounced as a sigle  or as=20=

an acronym. Derived formed on a sigle (ex. c=8Eg=8Etiste, coming from C. =
G.=20
T.)


* apocope n. f.
=A5 1521; lat. gramm. d'o. gr. apocopa

=AC Ling. Falling of a "phon=8Fme", for one or several syllabs at the =
end=20
of the word (opposite of aph=8Er=8Fse). =DE truncation. We say =C7 t=8El=8E=
 =C8 for =C7=20
t=8El=8Evision =C8, =C7 mat =C8 for =C7 matin =C8 by apocope. =D0 Adj. =
APOCOP=83, =83E,=20
1578.


aph=8Er=8Fse n. f.
=A5 1701; aph(a)eresis 1521; lat. gramm. d'o. gr. aph=BEresis

=AC Ling. Falling of a "phon=8Fme" or a group of "phon=8Fmes" at the =
start of=20
a word (oppos=8E of apocope). =DE truncation. =C7 Car =C8 for =C7 =
autocar =C8 by=20
aph=8Er=8Fse.


Simple!!! Isn't it ;)