On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 01:11:07PM -0800, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 08:22:42PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > In doc/src/sgml/func.sgml description of SHOW command use
> > "<acronym>SQL</acronym>", while SET command description the same
> > section does not use "<acronym>". Shouldn't the description of SET use
> > "<acronym>" for "SQL" as well? Patch attached.
>
> https://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.2/acronym.html suggests docbook formatters
> either ignore that <acronym> or use it as a signal to substitute small caps.
> I don't consider small caps an improvement for "SQL", so I'd prefer to never
> use <acronym>SQL</acronym>. <acronym> also makes the markup longer (though
> one could mitigate that with an entity like &SQL). However, standardizing on
> either way is better than varying within the manual.
I think smallcaps is almost always a win for acronyms.
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