[Docutils-develop] HTML Acronyms

[Jason D. <ja...@in...>]

Hello.

I'm trying to add support to the html4css1 writer for acronyms. I want
interpreted text that matches a known set of acronyms to output an
<acronym> element instead of the default <span class="interpreted">
element it outputs now. For example, `reST` should output <acronym
title="reStructuredText">reST</acronym>.

I'm new to the docutils source code so was wondering what the best way
to do this would be. I thought I'd add an --acronyms-file option to the
writer, load the acronyms and their titles out of that file, and then
check to see if the text for an interpreted node was one of those known
acronyms. Is this an appropriate approach or should I be looking at
implementing it via a transform? This makes sense to me since the
acronym element I'm trying to output is specific to HTML.

Thanks,

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Jason Diamond <ja...@in...>