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| author | Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-07-22 23:56:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-07-22 23:56:53 +0000 |
| commit | 89d89ebbcaec07c073120ef3cf387b96234009cd (patch) | |
| tree | ef46e8b795c5aeafa011a4b8853be9d73f483764 /en_US.ISO8859-1/books | |
| parent | e893b6faf28eb313539b537e9ec18b994fff5ade (diff) | |
| download | doc-89d89ebbcaec07c073120ef3cf387b96234009cd.tar.gz doc-89d89ebbcaec07c073120ef3cf387b96234009cd.zip | |
Fix a spelling error and simplify the acronym definition paragraph.
Submitted by: bjk
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svn path=/head/; revision=42389
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| -rw-r--r-- | en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.xml index 7a6d863fe3..66ee7242c6 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.xml @@ -282,15 +282,13 @@ <sect2> <title>Acronyms</title> - <para>Acronyms should be spelled out the first time + <para>Acronyms should be defined the first time they appear in a document, as in: <quote>Network Time Protocol (<acronym>NTP</acronym>)</quote>. After the acronym has been defined, use the acronym alone unless it makes more - sense contextually to use the whole term. Usually, acronyms - are defined only one per document. But they can also be - defined the first time they appear in a - chapter.</para> + sense contextually to use the whole term. Acronyms are usually + defined only once per chapter or per document.</para> <para>All acronyms should be enclosed in <sgmltag>acronym</sgmltag> tags.</para> |