> I'm with Noah: small caps are *not* an improvement, they're just > distractingly fussy. I note that the authors of the stylesheets > we use seem to agree, because AFAICS <acronym> is not rendered > specially in either HTML or PDF output. > > Given this docbook.org advice, I'd be inclined to just remove > our use of <acronym> altogether. Although, since it isn't actually > making any difference, it's not clear that it's worth doing anything. > The largest effect of trying to standardize (in either direction) > would be to create back-patching hazards for docs fixes.
Yeah, simple grep showed that there are almost 1k lines using <acronym>. I agree that the pain caused by fixing all of them is much larger than the benefit to standardize the usage of <acronym>. -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp