The Sname= Keyword

The optional sname= keyword assigns an alternative (presumably shorter or abbreviated) name to prefixes, suffixes, and other words. The name is taken to begin with the first non-blank character following the blank after the keyword, and continues up to the next semicolon or the end of the line. The name can contain underscores and dashes (-). A particular sname value should not be specified more than once per section of the encodings file. If sname= is specified more than once for the same word, all specifications except the last are ignored. Hence, sname= should be specified at most once.

Any short names specified can be entered by users as part of a label. Short names are never used in producing human-readable labels.