Re: Q. Acronyms -- Keep The Caps?

Subject: Re: Q. Acronyms -- Keep The Caps?
From: "David M. Brown" <dmbrown -at- BROWN-INC -dot- COM>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:01:59 -0700

Bergen, Jane wrote:
>
> The answer is....depends on who you listen to. In my "Que's Computer
> User's Dictionary," they DO use capitalized letters for some acronyms.
> For example, CAD (which would look strange in lower case) and the
> "Official Microsoft HTML Help Authoring Kit" consistently capitalizes
> HTML.

No, she's asking whether the *expanded* acronym (as in her example)
contain uppercase characters where they appear in the acronym.

I think we'll all agree that the acronym itself should be in uppercase.

--David

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