RE: Lots of acronyms

Subject: RE: Lots of acronyms
From: "Jessica Weissman" <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:49:13 -0500

What I do is create a glossary listing all the terms.

I also link the first occurrence of each term on each screen/topic to a
popup with the glossary text.

Works reasonably well for acronym and initialism laden material.

- Jessica
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