14.7.3 Configuring use of abbreviations
for glossary terms
Your company style guide might require certain terms
to be spelled out in full the first time they appear in your document,
after which you can use an abbreviation or acronym. This can present
some challenges:
- If such a term is included in
a glossary, you must be able to represent the relationship between either
form of the term and its definition.
- In a reusable-topic-based writing
environment there is no way to know which will be the first use of a
term.
- The first-use rule can vary
depending on the context, on the type of output, and other possible factors.
In DITA 1.2 and later versions, you can use the <abbreviated-form>
element to represent every reference to a glossary term.
In this section:
§14.7.3.1
Specifying first-use rules for glossary-term abbreviations
§14.7.3.2
Overriding first-use rules for abbreviations
§14.7.3.3
Specifying @class for the abbreviated-form element
§14.7.3.4
Formatting output for the abbreviated-form element
Previous Topic: 14.7.2 Specifying
output formats for the glossary
Next Topic: 14.7.3.1 Specifying
first-use rules for glossary-term abbreviations
Parent Topic: 14.7 Producing
a glossary
Sibling Topics:
14.7.1 Specifying
file name and title for the glossary
14.7.2 Specifying
output formats for the glossary