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Missing paragraphs in glossary
After each abbreviation there is a paragraph in my glossary except in one row. (see screenshot). There is no separation between the "W3C" and "WHATWG" abbreviation.
Does anyone know what I can do?
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What is a good way to typeset dot-separated acronyms?
I am trying to find a good appearance for typesetting "C.A.T.A.P.U.L.T.". When I type it as is, it appears to me that P.U.L. are bunched up together while the other letters are well apart. Perhaps ...
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How to prevent getting a space after an abbreviation using the abbrevs package?
If I use the abbrevs package and define a \newabbrev using the following code
\newabbrev\gb{Great Britain}
and use it in the following example (taken from the xspace package documentation):
\gb, a ...
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Problem with spacing after abbreviation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
\newcommand and spacing
No space following macro without argument
I want to use \newabbrev for some abbreviations, but the spacing is off. With \newabbrev, I get ...
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Canonical way to typeset spacing in abbreviations
In a comment to When one should use spacing line \quad or \, Herbert claims that e.\,g. is the canonical way to typeset spacing in abbreviations (this is not about spacing before or after ...
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Macros for common abbreviations
Common abbreviations are surprisingly tricky to format correctly. I'd like some simple macros for them, to be used like so:
You should eat more fruit, \eg apples, bananas, oranges, \etc.
There are ...
