extract_validate_abbreviations {TeXCheckR}

Extract valid abbreviations and initialisms

Description

Extracts abbreviations which are preceded by the full text (e.g. 'The Quebec Xylophone Enterprise Foundation (QXEF)').

Usage

extract_validate_abbreviations(lines)

Arguments

lines

Lines to extract

Details

Only 'valid' abbreviations are extracted, viz. those abbreviations of the form (ABC) where the first letters of the preceding words (excluding some common words like of, and, etc.) are 'a', 'b', 'c'.

Value

Character vector of abbreviations of the form (ABC)