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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>@abbr (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="@abbr (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="@abbr (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Indicating.html" rel="up" title="Indicating"> <link href="_0040acronym.html" rel="next" title="@acronym"> <link href="_0040dfn.html" rel="prev" title="@dfn"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="subsection" id="g_t_0040abbr"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="_0040acronym.html" accesskey="n" rel="next"><code>@acronym</code>{<var>acronym</var>[, <var>meaning</var>]}</a>, Previous: <a href="_0040dfn.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev"><code>@dfn</code>{<var>term</var>}</a>, Up: <a href="Indicating.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Indicating Definitions, Commands, etc.</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="g_t_0040abbr_007babbreviation_005b_002c-meaning_005d_007d"></span><h4 class="subsection">6.1.13 <code>@abbr</code>{<var>abbreviation</var>[, <var>meaning</var>]}</h4> <span id="abbr"></span><span id="index-abbr"></span> <span id="index-Abbreviations_002c-tagging"></span> <p>You can use the <code>@abbr</code> command for general abbreviations. The abbreviation is given as the single argument in braces, as in ‘<samp>@abbr{Comput.}</samp>’. As a matter of style, or for particular abbreviations, you may prefer to omit periods, as in ‘<samp>@abbr{Mr} Stallman</samp>’. </p> <p><code>@abbr</code> accepts an optional second argument, intended to be used for the meaning of the abbreviation. </p> <p>If the abbreviation ends with a lowercase letter and a period, and is not at the end of a sentence, and has no second argument, remember to use the <code>@.</code> command (see <a href="Ending-a-Sentence.html">Ending a Sentence</a>) to get the correct spacing. However, you do not have to use <code>@.</code> within the abbreviation itself; Texinfo automatically assumes periods within the abbreviation do not end a sentence. </p> <span id="index-_003cabbr_003e-and-_003cabbrev_003e-tags"></span> <p>In TeX and in the Info output, the first argument is printed as-is; if the second argument is present, it is printed in parentheses after the abbreviation. In HTML the <code><abbr></code> tag is used; in DocBook, the <code><abbrev></code> tag is used. For instance: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">@abbr{Comput. J., Computer Journal} </pre></div> <p>produces: </p> <div class="display"> <pre class="display"><abbr title="Computer Journal">Comput. J.</abbr> (Computer Journal) </pre></div> <p>For abbreviations consisting of all capital letters, you may prefer to use the <code>@acronym</code> command instead. See the next section for more on the usage of these two commands. </p> </div> </body> </html>