LTWA.jl

Julia package for accessing the List of Title Word Abbreviations and computing abbreviations of titles.

Installation

] install LTWA or Pkg.install("LTWA").

Usage

abbreviate(title :: AbstractString) :: String

An abbreviation of title.

abbreviateword(word :: AbstractString) :: String

An abbreviation of word, which is assumed to be a single word.

LTWA.list :: Vector{Tuple{String, Union{Missing, String}, Set{Symbol}}}

The list as a vector of tuples (pat, abbrv, langs) where:

• pat is the pattern
• abbrv is the abbreviation (possibly missing)
• langs are the corresponding languages

Examples

julia> using LTWA

julia> abbreviate("Journal of Statistical Software")
"J. Stat. Softw."

Known limitations and deviations from ISO 4

(Feel free to open an issue/PR)

• We don't always capitalize the first letter of the first word
• We try to abbreviate every word
• We don't remove commas or convert periods to commas
• The list of words we drop is very small
• We don't handle punctuation at all