Hello,

I support for the use of the <abbr> tag, and also support for some limit of its usage, since it's quite useful. Or, is some syntax like this ""text|abbreviation"" possible? By " I mean the quotation mark, not two apostrophes. So my proposal is using two quotation mark on each side, total four of them, to enwrap the text and the abbreviation.

It would be quite useful, not only for abbreviations, but also for versions like zh-min-nan, when the alphabets need to be better understood in hanzi.

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 07:36:31 +0000, Tomer Chachamu the.r3m0t@gmail.com wrote:

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 23:34:56 +0100, Gerrit Holl <gerrit@nl.linux.org > wrote:

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Hi,

a few HTML tags work in Wikipedia article, but <abbr> doesn't. Is there a Wikisyntax for abbr? If not, could <abbr> be enabled until there is?

regards, Gerrit Holl.

There's no wikisyntax I can think of, but using abbr could make the wikisource of some technical articles near-unreadable. (That is the tag which provides a description on mouseover, right?) Perhaps we could place in the Manual of Style only to use <abbr> for the first instance of an abbreviation. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l