Development/Acronyms

There are a lot of acronyms in LibreOffice that will be unfamiliar to new developers. Please add them as you come across them.

general ones / not only used here

 * a11y - Accessibility
 * SDBC - Star DataBase Connectivity

Subsystem labels

 * SAL - System Abstraction Layer
 * for additional confusion there are 2 of these:
 * "sal" is the lowest-level OS abstraction and runtime library, which also contains OSL and RTL
 * "SAL" is a part of VCL that abstracts different window systems (lots of classes with "Sal" prefix)
 * VCL - Visual Class Library
 * RTL - RunTime Layer
 * OSL - Operating System (abstraction) Layer
 * Sw - StarWriter
 * UNO - Universal Network Objects
 * URE - UNO Runtime Environment
 * Sc - StarCalc
 * Sd - StarDraw (since the code is shared, also used for Impress)
 * Sm - StarMath
 * Sv - StarView
 * Svx - StarView eXtended functionality
 * Svtools or svt - StarView tools
 * Sfx - Star Framework