Re: abbreviations, acronyms, and glossaries

Subject: Re: abbreviations, acronyms, and glossaries
From: Jason Willebeek-LeMair <jlemair -at- ITEXCHSRV2 -dot- PHX -dot- MCD -dot- MOT -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 08:44:32 -0700

>> Explanations could be put in a glossary, but is there any evidence
>> that people read glossaries?

If you have a large number of acronyms in a document, you may want to
include an acronym glossary apart from your regular glossary. I have
found this to be useful from a user's standpoint, and well used from a
writer's standpoint.

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