Acronym First Use Spelled Out Rule Checker
Audit exact caller acronym-token first-use expansion under one of two literal house-style forms, preserving Unicode codepoint position and avoiding embedded token matches; no invented acronym dictionary, contextual common-name exceptions or semantic expansion matching.
Description
First-use acronym checks need an explicit full name and exact house-style form.
First-use acronym checks need an explicit full name and exact house-style form. Token boundaries avoid matching an embedded abbreviation.1
Enter copy, uppercase alphanumeric acronym2–16 characters starting with a letter, nonblank full name≤4096 characters and exact full (short)/short (full) choice. Count bounded case-sensitive tokens and return first code-point offset or −1, pattern flag and count.
When to use Acronym First Use Spelled Out Rule Checker
Use Acronym First Use Spelled Out Rule Checker when you need to evaluate the supplied records under the calculation and evidence rules below. No acronym dictionary, contextual exception or semantic expansion matching is inferred; copy≤65536 UTF-16 units.
Prepare the actual editorial, source, layout, timing or audience records requested. Supply explicit house-policy limits and preserve missing evidence.
How to use Acronym First Use Spelled Out Rule Checker and understand its results
- Prepare the actual editorial, source, layout, timing or audience records requested. Supply explicit house-policy limits and preserve missing evidence.
- Enter copyText, acronymToken, callerFullName, callerExactFirstUsePattern using the field table and calculation rules, then run the tool.
- Read firstAcronymCodepointOffset, firstUseExpansionPatternPresent, observedAcronymTokenCount. The explanation below defines the units, signs, ordering and any flags or placeholder values.
- If the tool reports an input issue, correct the values and run it again. Apply the stated assumptions when interpreting a successfully returned result.
| Input field | Meaning | Value type; see rules below | Requirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| copyText | Copy text | string | Required |
| acronymToken | Acronym token | string | Required |
| callerFullName | Caller full name | string | Required |
| callerExactFirstUsePattern | Caller exact first use pattern | string | Required |
Enter copy, uppercase alphanumeric acronym2–16 characters starting with a letter, nonblank full name≤4096 characters and exact full (short)/short (full) choice. Count bounded case-sensitive tokens and return first code-point offset or −1, pattern flag and count.
expected=fullName (ACRONYM) or ACRONYM (fullName) at first exact token Units, indexing, boundary conditions and exceptional cases are defined in the calculation rules above.
| Output field | Meaning | Value type |
|---|---|---|
| firstAcronymCodepointOffset | First acronym codepoint offset | number |
| firstUseExpansionPatternPresent | First use expansion pattern present | boolean |
| observedAcronymTokenCount | Observed acronym token count | number |
{
"input": {
"copyText": "World Health Organization (WHO) works. WHO reports.",
"acronymToken": "WHO",
"callerFullName": "World Health Organization",
"callerExactFirstUsePattern": "full (short)"
},
"output": {
"firstAcronymCodepointOffset": 27,
"firstUseExpansionPatternPresent": true,
"observedAcronymTokenCount": 2
}
} Limitations and assumptions
No acronym dictionary, contextual exception or semantic expansion matching is inferred; copy≤65536 UTF-16 units.
Numeric inputs, where present, must be finite. Follow the calculation-specific rules for overflow, underflow and exceptional cases. Extremely large text inputs are rejected. Missing required fields, extra fields, wrong value types and violations of the calculation rules are input errors. A successfully returned false flag is an evaluated outcome; its meaning is explained above.
Alternative or Complementary methods
Use SEO Headline Front Load Keyword Position Checker: Front-loading checks the first complete keyword phrase in tokenized headline copy. Token matching avoids embedded substring matches. For a complementary task, use Quote Context Truncation Full Clip Checker: A quote can be compared with an exact source slice. Available surrounding text differs from semantic fidelity.
References
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