Re: [Docutils-develop] HTML Acronyms

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

On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 09:04, David Goodger wrote: 

> A quick & dirty way to implement what you want would be to indicate the role
> of each acronym like this: "`reST`:acronym:" or "`reST`:a:".  This will put
> the role into a doctree node attribute, which is easy to check for in code.
> But the text is butt-ugly and this approach become obsolete (read on).

This is what I did. It is ugly but not as much as in HTML. At least the
titles can be defined elsewhere.

> An application (or document or processing run) could specify a default role,
> so a ":role:" prefix or suffix wouldn't be required; plain `backquotes`
> would be sufficient.
> 
> Ideally and eventually, the "interpreted" element will disappear from the
> Docutils doctree.  In its place will be a customizable set of inline
> elements including "acronym" and "index_entry", directly created by the
> parser.

How will that work? Will acronyms and index entries use a different
syntax to differentiate themselves from each other? Are are you saying
the default role will specify that all interpreted text is a certain
type of element? What if you wanted to identify both acronyms and index
entries in the same document? What if an acronym was also an index
entry?

Jason