acronym tag

[Michel Fortin]

Le 2007-03-06 à 4:54, Emmanuel VAÏSSE a écrit :


> Hello, is there an acronym method in php markdown extra ?


No, there is only support for abbreviations. Initially I was thinking  
about a companion syntax to be able to specify acronyms, but I later  
decided against it after learning the `<acronym>` element has been  
removed from the WHATWG's [Web Application working draft][1] (often  
called HTML5 these days).

  [1]: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-abbr

The rationale behind the removal is that it's most often pointless to  
distinguish acronyms from other kinds of abbreviations: visually,  
they're sometimes all caps (NASA), sometimes not (laser, radar);  
spoken, they're sometimes spelled letter-by-letter (USA) and at other  
times they're pronounced as a word (WYSIWYG). And some acronyms just  
have no meaning as acronyms (LMX: reverse parser for XML).

Personally, I tend to agree with dropping `<acronym>`, and thus  
decided not to add support for it in PHP Markdown Extra. You can use  
abbreviations instead.


Michel Fortin
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