acronym

acronym — An often pronounceable word made from the initial (or selected) letters of a name or phrase.

Synopsis

Zero or more of:
- text
- phrase (db._phrase)
- replaceable
- trademark
- Graphic inlines
  inlinemediaobject
- Indexing inlines
  indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
  indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
  indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
- Linking inlines
  anchor
  biblioref
  link
  olink
  xref
- Ubiquitous inlines
  alt
  anchor
  annotation
  biblioref
  indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
  indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
  indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
  inlinemediaobject
  link
  olink
  remark
  subscript
  superscript
  xref

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

A pronounceable contraction of initials. An acronym is often printed in all capitals or small capitals, although this is sometimes incorrect (consider dpi or bps).

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Parents

This element occurs in 55 elements.

Children

This element contains 17 elements.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example acronym</title>
    
  4 <para>In the United States, <acronym>NASA</acronym> stands for the 
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
  6 </para>
    
  8 </article>

In the United States, NASA stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.


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