On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 08:22:42PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > In doc/src/sgml/func.sgml description of SHOW command use > "<acronym>SQL</acronym>", while SET command description the same > section does not use "<acronym>". Shouldn't the description of SET use > "<acronym>" for "SQL" as well? Patch attached.
https://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.2/acronym.html suggests docbook formatters either ignore that <acronym> or use it as a signal to substitute small caps. I don't consider small caps an improvement for "SQL", so I'd prefer to never use <acronym>SQL</acronym>. <acronym> also makes the markup longer (though one could mitigate that with an entity like &SQL). However, standardizing on either way is better than varying within the manual.