[duxuser] Re: acronyms
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 23:36:20 +0100
Have you studied SWIFT's acronym feature?
The problem as I see it with sniffers, is that they could
get to a point where they could result in more work.
George.
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Subject: [duxuser] Re: acronyms
Wouldn't it be nice if there were an acronym sniffer utility
in a braille production program that would work like a
spell checker. It would give a braillist a list of possible
acronym needing attention. It would certainly be handy for
the transcriber of administrivial documents.
Warren
In a message dated 6/18/2005 7:46:00 AM Central Standard
Time, braille@xxxxxxxxx writes:
The tendency to refer to things by alphabet is farly
recent. Thus when the
contraction for according was introduced, AC did not
refer to air
concitioning, electrical wiring or, in parts of the
North East, U.S.,
Atlantic City. The IT and AS contractions cause
problems in codes and
catalog numbers also. E.g. 256-as-w. One of my
customers has these complex
codes all the time and the accidental translation of
an as combination as
a z is a serious handicap. Some day those who revise
contracted Braille
periodically will see the wisdom of repealing these
problematical
contractions. Until then, my practice is to spell
out any and all acronyms
even though it is often inconvenient.
Catherine
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