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Acronyms are used in weblogging practically everyday with things like Mt, 6A, IIRC etc. It has been suggested for accessibility purposes that every acronym be giving a definition. Now if you use a lot of acronyms in one post it can be very tiresome to keep typing out the code everytime, so why not make MT do it automatically ?

UPDATE: The best way to do this is to install the Acronym plugin that will do all this for you, automatically! Alternatively you could do it manually as described below

To do this you will need Brad Choate's MTMacro plugin.

Create a new template module and populate with code:

<MTMacroDefine no_html="1" name="mt" string="MT"><acronym title="Movable Type">MT</acronym></MTMacroDefine>

Replicate this code for all acronyms you want and then include that template module into every template you wish the acronyms to show, don't forget to add a css definition for the acronyms, something like:

acronym {border-bottom: 1px dotted #999;}