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I am willing to use the acronym package in a paper and I'd like to show the acronym in \textsc.

Unfortunately the documentation of the package says that my acronym can be only an ASCII character. http://staff.science.uva.nl/~polko/HOWTO/LATEX/acronym.html

Is there a way to do what I'd like to do?

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The label associated with the acronym can only be ASCII. The acronym itself can be anything supported by LaTeX. Your link mentions: "You can define acronyms with \acrodef{label}[acronym]{written out form}, for example \acrodef{etacar}[$\eta$ Car]{Eta Carinae}, with the restriction that the label should be simple ASCII." Note the use of math mode $..$ in the acronym. Do you want \textsc as the default for all your acronyms or just some? – Werner Dec 8 '11 at 20:01
For me it is ok to set something like \acrodef{API}[\textsc{API}]{Application Programming Interface} but it is not working as expected and what I get is the usual plain text. – mariosangiorgio Dec 8 '11 at 20:58
Nevermind, I tried it again and it worked. It just required an additional compilation. – mariosangiorgio Dec 8 '11 at 20:59
I've converted my comment into an answer. – Werner Dec 8 '11 at 21:01

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The label associated with the acronym can only be ASCII. The acronym itself can be anything supported by LaTeX. Your link mentions:

You can define acronyms with \acrodef{label}[acronym]{written out form}, for example \acrodef{etacar}[$\eta$ Car]{Eta Carinae}, with the restriction that the label should be simple ASCII.

Note the use of math mode $..$ in the acronym. As such, using \acrodef{..}[\textsc{...}]{...} will achieve the desired output.

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