My apologies. I do agree, and is actually a pet gripe on many technical documents littered with acronyms. But when mails on this forum are littered with stuff like; #<t-wid+> = [[#<_t-len>] * 0.50000] one assumes MPG (Manual Pulse Generator) is understood. It's mentioned at least once a week.
Regards Roland On 25 March 2011 18:03, Kirk Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 15:34 +0100, Peter Blodow wrote: > > If I only knew what a MPG is - in Germany it means Max Planck > > Gesellschaft which is one of the world's best research institutes... > > Peter Blodow > > It used to be good form to append the fully worded term to the acronym > with the first use of each acronym in a document, such as: "I like knobs > on my MPG (Manual Pulse Generator) as many commercial MPG's have". It's > a little more work, but it comes down to whether one wants to be > understood by the intended audience or not. > -- > Kirk Wallace > http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ > http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html > California, USA > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the > growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses > are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software > be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker > today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
