abbrev

abbrev — An abbreviation, especially one followed by a period.

Synopsis

Description

An abbreviation, especially one followed by a period.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Children

The following elements occur in abbrev: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, 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.

See Also

acronym, emphasis, foreignphrase, phrase, quote, wordasword

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example abbrev</title>
    
  4 <para>The <abbrev>Assn.</abbrev> of Computing Machinery would probably never
    abbreviate “Association” like this.
  6 </para>
    
  8 </article>

The Assn. of Computing Machinery would probably never abbreviate “Association” like this.

Last revised by Norman Walsh on 6 Jun 2011 (git hash: 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)