> I'm with Noah: small caps are *not* an improvement, they're just
> distractingly fussy. I note that the authors of the stylesheets
> we use seem to agree, because AFAICS <acronym> is not rendered
> specially in either HTML or PDF output.
>
> Given this docbook.org advice, I'd be inclined to just remove
> our use of <acronym> altogether. Although, since it isn't actually
> making any difference, it's not clear that it's worth doing anything.
> The largest effect of trying to standardize (in either direction)
> would be to create back-patching hazards for docs fixes.
Yeah, simple grep showed that there are almost 1k lines using
<acronym>. I agree that the pain caused by fixing all of them is much
larger than the benefit to standardize the usage of <acronym>.
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