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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Mar 5, 2003 3:13PM

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, jeb wrote:

> What is the suggested approach if one is creating a multiple page document
> and the abbreviation/acronym is found on multiple pages. Is it sufficient to
> only include the details in the "beginning" of the document? Or, must there
> be an detail on every page?

I would normally try and set up a separate page containing the
explanations of abbreviations, special symbols and terms, and any unusual
notations, if there is a considerable number (say, more than a dozen) of
them on pages of a site. In that case I would make a note of and link to
that page near the beginning of every page.

Depending on circumstances, the abbreviations etc. might need explanations
on other pages too. But a centralized page of notations would be useful
as a reference - a user could even open it in a separate window, or print
it for reference.

(Well, for a suitable definition of "site", namely a collection of
closely related pages. And no, I haven't got much of such material
on my own pages - I just realized the importance of explaining such
things, not only to people who don't know the abbreviations or terms at
all but to people who know them in _different_ meanings and need to know
how a particular site uses them.)

--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


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