Re: [docbook-tc] acronym title?

Bob Stayton <> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:11:16AM +0200, Oleg Tkachenko wrote: >
> Hello! > >  >
> How can I get <acronym> element to be in html like a real html >
> acronym, e.g. <acronym title= Document Object Model
>DOM</acronym>? > >  --- Oleg Tkachenko, Multiconn International, Israel >
> This was an interesting request.  Is there any mechanism
> in DocBook to associate a full title with its acronym?
> Seems like a logical thing to do.  On the presentation side in particular, for any Acronym and Abbrev you'd like to have appear as  normal  text in rendered output, having a standard way to associate it with a  spelled out  phrase would make it possible for the stylesheets to transform the DocBook source in such a way that the spelled-out text shows up as pop-up/tooltip/alt text in rendered output for the Acronym/Abbrev.  And it might also be good to have a way to do the converse: to have phrases-that-can-be-abbreviated show up normally in rendered output, with their associated acronyms/abbreviations available as the annotations -- pop-up/tooltip/alt text -- instead.  I guess the HTML  title  attribute -- as Oleg uses it in his example-- is the standard HTML place to put that kind of annotative text to make it appear as pop-up/tooltip text (in Explorer and Mozilla at least). But you can also generate some Javascript or whatever to get better annotation pop-ups (with character formatting, links, and images and such in them). And you can have pop-up annotations in PDFs too.
--Mike

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