Abbreviations

Enable with .UseAbbreviations() (included in UseAdvancedExtensions()).

Abbreviations define expansions for acronyms and short terms. When the abbreviation appears in the text, it is wrapped in an <abbr> tag with a title attribute. Inspired by PHP Markdown Extra.

Syntax

Define abbreviations anywhere in the document using *[ABBR]: Full text:

*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language
*[CSS]: Cascading Style Sheets

This page uses HTML and CSS.

This page uses HTML and CSS.

HTML output

<p>This page uses <abbr title="Hyper Text Markup Language">HTML</abbr>
and <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr>.</p>

Rules

Abbreviation definitions are not rendered as visible content.
Matching is case-sensitive and matches whole words only.
Abbreviation definitions can appear anywhere in the document — they apply globally.
Multiple abbreviations can be defined in the same document.