acronym
acronym — An often pronounceable word made from the initial (or selected) letters of a name or phrase.
Synopsis
acronym ::=
- Zero or more of:
- text
replaceable
- Graphic inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
abbrev
acronym
alt
anchor
annotation
biblioref
coref
date
emphasis
(db._emphasis)firstterm
(db._firstterm)footnote
footnoteref
foreignphrase
(db._foreignphrase)glossterm
(db._glossterm)indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular)indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobject
link
olink
phrase
(db._phrase)quote
(db._quote)remark
subscript
superscript
trademark
wordasword
xref
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
No additional 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.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- any attribute
Any attribute in any other explicit namespace
Parents
These elements contain acronym
: abbrev
, accel
, acronym
, address
, application
, arg
, artpagenums
, attribution
, authorinitials
, bibliocoverage
, biblioentry
, biblioid
, bibliomisc
, bibliomixed
, bibliomset
, bibliorelation
, biblioset
, bibliosource
, bridgehead
, buildtarget
, caption
(db.html.caption), citation
, citebiblioid
, citetitle
, city
, classname
, classsynopsisinfo
, code
, command
, computeroutput
, confdates
, confnum
, confsponsor
, conftitle
, constant
, contractnum
, contractsponsor
, contrib
, country
, database
, description
, edition
, email
, emphasis
(db._emphasis), emphasis
(db.emphasis), entry
, enumidentifier
, enumitemdescription
, enumname
, enumvalue
, envar
, errorcode
, errorname
, errortext
, errortype
, exceptionname
, fax
, filename
, firstname
, firstterm
(db._firstterm), firstterm
(db.firstterm), foreignphrase
(db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase
(db.foreignphrase), funcdef
, funcparams
, funcsynopsisinfo
, function
, givenname
, glossentry
, glosssee
, glossseealso
, glossterm
(db._glossterm), glossterm
(db.glossterm), guibutton
, guiicon
, guilabel
, guimenu
, guimenuitem
, guisubmenu
, hardware
, holder
, honorific
, initializer
, interfacename
, issuenum
, jobtitle
, keycap
, keycode
, keysym
, label
, lineage
, lineannotation
, link
, literal
, literallayout
, macroname
, manvolnum
, markup
, mathphrase
, member
, meta
(db.meta.content), methodname
, modifier
, mousebutton
, msgaud
, msglevel
, msgorig
, olink
, option
, optional
, orgdiv
, orgname
, otheraddr
, othername
, package
, pagenums
, para
, paramdef
, parameter
, personname
, phone
, phrase
(db._phrase), phrase
(db.phrase), pob
, postcode
, primary
, primaryie
, productname
, productnumber
, programlisting
, prompt
, property
, publishername
, quote
(db._quote), quote
(db.quote), refdescriptor
, refentrytitle
, refmiscinfo
, refname
, refpurpose
, releaseinfo
, remark
, replaceable
, returnvalue
, revnumber
, revremark
, screen
, secondary
, secondaryie
, see
, seealso
, seealsoie
, seeie
, seg
, segtitle
, seriesvolnums
, shortaffil
, simpara
, specializedtemplate
, state
, street
, subscript
, subtitle
, superscript
, surname
, symbol
, synopsis
, synopsisinfo
, systemitem
, tag
, td
, template
, templatename
, term
, termdef
, tertiary
, tertiaryie
, th
, title
, titleabbrev
, tocentry
, token
, trademark
, type
, typedefname
, unionname
, uri
, userinput
, varname
, volumenum
, wordasword
, year
.
Children
The following elements occur in acronym
: text, abbrev
, acronym
, alt
, anchor
, annotation
, biblioref
, coref
, date
, emphasis
(db._emphasis), firstterm
(db._firstterm), footnote
, footnoteref
, foreignphrase
(db._foreignphrase), glossterm
(db._glossterm), indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular), indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject
, link
, olink
, phrase
(db._phrase), quote
(db._quote), remark
, replaceable
, subscript
, superscript
, trademark
, wordasword
, xref
.
See Also
Related elements: abbrev
, emphasis
, foreignphrase
, phrase
, quote
, wordasword
.
Examples
1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
|<title>Example acronym</title>
||
<para>In the United States, <acronym>NASA</acronym> stands for the
5 |National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
|</para>
||
</article>
In the United States, NASA stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.