From 89d89ebbcaec07c073120ef3cf387b96234009cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Warren Block Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 23:56:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix a spelling error and simplify the acronym definition paragraph. Submitted by: bjk --- .../books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.xml | 8 +++----- 1 file 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 @@ Acronyms - Acronyms should be spelled out the first time + Acronyms should be defined the first time they appear in a document, as in: Network Time Protocol (NTP). 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. + sense contextually to use the whole term. Acronyms are usually + defined only once per chapter or per document. All acronyms should be enclosed in acronym tags.