See how acronyms are easy to understand with a bit of web interactivity. I have recently published a paper entitled Total Radiated Power Measurements of a mmWave Phased Array in a Reverberation Chamber. This article uses many acronyms from the world of radio communications.

In the LaTeX version, the acronym package is used. In the most frequent usage, this package first displays the acronym with its meaning for reference, and only displays the acronym in later usage.

Should LaTeX2Web do the same? It does not, because there is a more practical implementation, which uses interactivity to bring a satisfying solution.

Specifically, the acronym is always displayed. However, wherever it is displayed, clicking on it reveals the long form of the acronym. Clicking on the long form dismisses it. This way, the long form of the acronym is only a click away!

Of special interest are several options available in the LaTeX acronym package. They are used for the following purposes:

• use a plural form
• start the long form with an uppercase
• put an article before the acronym

While this may look simple, it does not make much sense outside of ASCII text. If you are Unicode glyphs for your document, chances are great that this does not mean anything. How do you get the uppercase for a Chinese ideogram? This simply does not exist. This why, due to a lack of general meaning, these variations are simply ignored.

This is the occasion to emphasize that all the text operations performed in LaTeX2Web use UTF-8 as an encoding, which means that it works nicely with all the essential Unicode character blocks.