<abbrev>

Abbreviated title

Indicates an alternate, typically shorter, heading for a topic that has a long title. The abbreviated title is used within the HP Help System's dialogs whenever the title of a topic is displayed in a list (such as in the Topic Hierarchy and the History dialog).

Syntax. 

   <topic-element>title

   <abbrev>short title

Where topic-element is <hometopic>, <chapter>, <s1>, or any other element that begins a new topic.

The <abbrev> tag must appear on the line immediately following the heading.

An end tag is not required.

Examples.  Here is a simple example:

   <chapter>Ways of Treating Headings that are Too Long 

   <abbrev>Long Headings

Suppose you want to have a topic that doesn't have its title displayed in the help text display area, but you do want a title to appear in the Topic Hierarchy. The following markup shows how this can be done:

   <chapter>&

   <abbrev>chapter title

See Also.