From: Alban Hertroys <a.hertroys@magproductions.nl>
To: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Abbreviation list
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:41:24 +0200
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Steve Crawford wrote:
> My vote is to add "Appendix I. Abbreviations". Don't know if it's
> practical for 8.3 documentation but it would be nice to add even if it
> only has a few entries as additional ones could be collected via the
> user notes.
>
> I suggest as a discussion starting-point the following inclusion criteria:
>
> 1. Any abbreviation/acronym that appears in the PostgreSQL documentation
> (even if those terms may not be PG specific - we shouldn't assume that
> everyone knows them). Good documentation practice recommends defining
> abbreviations the first time they are used. Better still, ensure that
> they are in the abbreviation list.
Isn't this just what the ABBR tag in html is for?
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