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I want to achieve the following. I have an acronym in English like LED and want to display in the text the German name

Blabbla bla Licht emittierende Diode (LED) bla bla blabla.,

and in the glossary the English

LED engl. Light-emitting diode.

There is the possibility to define a long and short form acronym with the acronym package:

\acro{<acronym>}[<short name>]{<full name>}

Can I use this to print only the short name (engl. Light-emitting diode) in the glossary and using \acf{<acronym>} in the text to print the full name?

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No, the short name is LED. The acro package allows you to add extra information to the list of acronyms. – cgnieder Jan 30 at 7:40
So is it preferable to use the acro package instead of the acronym package? – Reza Jan 30 at 8:17
I wouldn't say that in general. Depends on what you need. You should have a look at the documentation and then decide for yourself. – cgnieder Jan 30 at 8:19

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