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Rowena Hart wrote:
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> I use the old journalism rule and don't capitalize the
> first letter of each word in the acronym. For example:
>
> COM (component object model)
> HTML (hyper text mark-up language)
I would definitely use lowercase for all but proper names. I hate it
when authors (or editors!) try to match letters in an expanded acronym:
DTP DeskTop Publishing
DBM DataBase Management
HTML HyperText Markup Language ("hypertext" is one word)
SHED Segmented Hypergraphic EDitor
XML eXtensible Markup Language
Puh-leez!
--David
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David M. Brown -- Brown Inc.
dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com http://www.brown-inc.com
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