abbreviate-names

Uniquely abbreviate a set of names in a language-appropriate way. The original intent was to shorten a collection of Latin species names such that they would fit more nicely into tables and graphs, but other applications abound!

This packages provides both

• a programmatic API, names.abbreviate.abbreviate() and
• a command line tool, abbreviate-names.

If installed with English or Latin options it also includes dependencies on natural language modules which enable it to break names up at syllable boundaries, which produces more readable results:

    pip install 'abbreviate-names[Latin,English]'

Example output

Observe:

• Several different words above are all shortened to “Xy.” or “X.” — it's the whole abbreviation that's unique, not the individual words.
• The already-abbreviated “sp.” is untouched.

Online

• GitHub: https://github.com/ConradHughes/abbreviate-names
• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/abbreviate-names/

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

[0.1.2] - 2020-08-31

Added

• Initial version by @ConradHughes, including
  • library function,
  • command line script,
  • support for Latin and English.