Short forms for Subcutaneous
agjon
Bob Willard notes that Alan S. abbreviates subcutaneous as subtan and he
abbreviates it as subcu.
For long words like this with a very common prefix, my approach is
prefix - root - ending: s - cut - s
scuts= subcutaneous
That way you can have:
sligs for subligamentous
sacrl for subacromial
sarad for subarachnoid
It's rule-based and takes the same as or fewer letters than Alan's and
Bob Willard's forms. (To paraphrase Bob, I find THIS to be the most
DRAMATIC difference.)
To avoid excessive duplicate short forms in such words, the ABCZ rules
provide abbreviations for prefixes using:
anti = a
for = f
trans = t
etc.
The first letter of a prefix is the abbreviation for that prefix - 13
letters covering about 19 prefixes. (The system is very literalist: how
you spell is what you type.) If the word is very common, you can use
the regular ABCZ form: unfy = unfortunately.
Abbreviation of prefixes is one of the handful of rules I mentioned that
ABCZ uses and is the one that takes the longest for the fingers to get
used to. This is much simpler, learnable and sharable, though, than the
complex Taylor rules or memorizing thousands of short and long forms.
Jon
an...@exis.net
I have been using PRD Plus for several years, more especially since I had a
stroke.
For subcutaneous, I use scu for subcutaneous and scut for subcutaneous
tissue.
The less I have to try to remember & the less I have to type works for me. I
try to limit how many acronyms I have to use, and also the fact that I use
more acronyms in PRD when I have to type the same word more than 3 times in
documents. Therefore, "t" would not cut it as I type the word the more than I
was trans.
Does this make sense to you?
Just my opinion.
Marianne
Fairjan
Lori-
Yeah - me to - subq for subcutaneous, that is. That is what you hear and
pushes the right buttons on me too.
Jan
agjon
Bob,
Thank you for the advice. I am not quitting my day job. I do not hope
or expect to make money from ABCZ - certainly not enough to make up the
dozens of hours I've put into it. I am putting it out there primarily in
case new MTs, who may think differently from you, want to try it or buy
it. There should be a better way than everyone having to devise their
own. Perhaps this isn't it, but maybe it will give people ideas so we
can have one that is.
As to "best sellers": From what I've seen, the ST lexicon does not
utilize an abbreviation system. The lexicon is very good, but I don't
recall an abbreviation system in it (other than the structure of ST
itself). Then there were/are the limits of the formerly very high price
and some people not wanting to use DOS after Windows became available.
Those are all contributing factors to fewer sales. Nor do I expect my
system, as I said above, to become a best seller. I think such systems
have a very limited market, at least at present.
Jon
Marilyn Garoz
My two cents:
Short cuts for subcutaneous
SQ, s.c., SC or subcu
Marilyn
Cici Clovis
On Sat, 26 Jul 97 22:17:26 GMT, an...@exis.net wrote:
>I have been using PRD Plus for several years, more especially since I had a
>stroke.
>For subcutaneous, I use scu for subcutaneous and scut for subcutaneous
>tissue.
>The less I have to try to remember & the less I have to type works for me. I
>try to limit how many acronyms I have to use, and also the fact that I use
>more acronyms in PRD when I have to type the same word more than 3 >times in documents. Therefore, "t" would not cut it as I type the word the
>more than I was trans.
>
>Does this make sense to you?
>Just my opinion.
>Marianne
Sure it makes sense, and I see your point. Acronyms really ARE a pain
in the . . . um . . . neck, because sometimes you want them to expand
and sometimes you don't.
Note: If you've seen my most recent post on this topic, you don't
have to read this, as this is just a quick recap.
I set my PRD up this way: for each acronym, the short form would have
the last letter twice. Thus, if I type 'COPD,' that's what I'll get.
However, if I type 'copdd,' it expands to 'chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease.' I set this up over three years ago, and believe
me, I've added a BUNCH of acronyms since then -- and I have yet to run
across an acronym with which this method would not work. There may
actually BE some, but I don't know about them. YMMV, of course.
Cici in Texas
(Remove * from email address to reply.
L. DeWine
I like to use COPD for the long version and COPD1 for the acronym.
Lynn
Gail M. Hall
On Sat, 26 Jul 1997 15:04:07 -0700, agjon <ag...@igc.apc.org> wrote:
>Bob Willard notes that Alan S. abbreviates subcutaneous as subtan and he
>abbreviates it as subcu.
>
>For long words like this with a very common prefix, my approach is
>prefix - root - ending: s - cut - s
>
>scuts= subcutaneous
>
>That way you can have:
>
>sligs for subligamentous
>sacrl for subacromial
>sarad for subarachnoid
>
Because an -s ending is so often needed to designate a plural or present
tense in the case of some verbs, I chose -z to designage any -ous ending if I
don't need it to add an -ize ending.
So I would use scutz for subcutaneous.
If my list shows too many "sc" words, I might use "sb" for "sub" words.
It's really interesting to see how different people's minds work!
I tend to favor consonants in abbreviations because English usually doesn't
have a lot of consonants in a row. It is less likely, therefore, that an
abbreviation may end up being a real word. That matters a lot in PRD and
QuickCorrect but does not matter so much in Instant Text because you don't
have to expand an abbreviation at all.
WordPerfect 6.1 and higher has an abbreviation feature that allows you to
store a set of abbreviations that expand only if you put your insertion point
on the abbreviation and press the "abbreviation expand" key. Unlike
QuickCorrect, these can be stored with formatting codes, so they are handy
for headings, signature blocks, etc. Abbreviations are stored in the
template you are using at the time you define them.
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Gail Hall in NE OH
gmh...@apk.net
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