Differentiate types of abbreviations (acronym, initialism, truncation, other)

[ronaldtse]

There are a few kinds of "abbreviations" ("Abbreviated term resulting from the omission of some of its letters.").

See this: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:4:ed-3:v1:en

These are the kinds:

• acronym (Abbreviated complex term made up of letters from the full form of a term and strung together into a sequence pronounced only syllabically)
• initialism (Abbreviated complex term or name made up of the first letters of the term elements.)
• truncation(Shortening of a word by the omission of two or more continuous letters at the end.)
• other (something that doesn't fit into the above categories)

Originally posted by @ronaldtse in https://github.com/glossarist/glossarist-ruby/issues/62#issuecomment-1542400005

[HassanAkbar]

@ronaldtse We have all of these types in glossarist here (https://github.com/glossarist/glossarist-ruby/blob/main/config.yml#L47-L51), so we can set the type to abbreviation and set if it is an acronym or initialism etc like

- type: abbreviation
  initialism: true
  designation: something

OR

- type: abbreviation
  truncation: true
  designation: something

and for others we can leave it just to

- type: abbreviation
  designation: something

Is this acceptable or do we need to change something here?

[ronaldtse]

This is perfect. I just wanted to be sure that this was not removed. Thanks!