iso4

Implementation of ISO 4 (Rules for the abbreviation of title words and titles of publications) / CIEPS LTWA (ISSN International Centre's List of Title Word Abbreviations) as a Python library.

Usage

>>> from iso4 import abbreviate

>>> abbreviate("Recent Advances in Studies on Cardiac Structure and Metabolism")
'Recent Adv. Stud. Card. Struct. Metab.'

>>> abbreviate("Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology", periods=False)
'J Am Acad Dermatol'

>>> abbreviate("Real Living with Multiple Sclerosis")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  ...
Exception: Ambiguous word in title: real; must disambiguate between langs: eng, fre, spa

>>> abbreviate("Real Living with Multiple Sclerosis", disambiguation_langs=['eng'])
'Real Living Mult. Scler.'

>>> abbreviate("Anales de la Real Academia de Farmacia", True, ['spa'])
'An. R. Acad. Farm.'

VIM Plugin

A VIM plugin allows to abbreviate names directly from inside vim.

Install with Vundle

The easiest way to install the plugin is via a vim plugin manager. I use vundle Then, just add the following to your .vimrc file.

Plugin  'adlpr/iso4'

Then run :PluginInstall from within VIM.

Use

The following command will change the current line to its abbreviation

:ISO4

The command can also be used in visual mode.

Notes

• Potential future improvements:
  • stricter treatment of language in general
  • better fuzzy matching with diacritics
  • conversion from non-Latin scripts
• Consider this function fairly hacky as is; do not expect 100% accuracy!