{acronyms} is about formatting acronyms and abbreviations using customized commands or specific packages like acronym or {glossaries}.
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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 ...
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Is it possible to define an acronym-command which behaves differently on the first invocation than on the rest?
Most technical writers will immediately see how I'd like to use this. I'm writing a paper about something I'll call That Which Will Be Abbreviated (TWWBA). I'd like to have a macro, \TWWBA{}, that ...
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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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How to define a command that bolds the first letter of each word in the input argument?
I want to define a command that takes a sentence, a word or several words as input and bolds the first letter of each word. I need this mostly for abbreviations and so far I have done it manually in ...
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Using small caps for abbreviations
I’m using small caps to mark up acronyms. Many style guides recommend this to make the acronyms stand out less among the lower-case letters.
However, I didn’t find good advice of what to do with ...
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List of mathematical notation / abbreviations
In my article, I would like to create a section "Mathematical Notation" that lists all the arcane mathematical symbols I'm using.
This is similar to an index or a list of figures. An example of what ...
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Managing acronyms with a macro that preserves the full name
I use the acronym package to create and manage acronyms in my document, e.g.:
\newacro{css}[CSS]{Cascading Style Sheets}
Can you use \ac{css}?
However, sometimes I must add typesetting to ...
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How to pluralize an acronym which ends in 'S' correctly?
When using the acronym package, how can you correctly pluralize an acronym which ends on 'S'?
Take the acronym: OS - operating system
It should be pluralized as OS's, but is pluralized as OSs when ...
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Proper indentation in acronym package
I am using the acronym package in the thesis. This is the first time I am using this so don't know much. But I did something like this.
\begin{acronym}
\acro{2G}{2nd Generation}
\acro{3GPP}{3rd ...
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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 do I prevent TeX from hyphenating acronyms?
Upper-case words look awkward when hyphenated. How do I suppress this behavior?
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Can small-caps be automated for abbreviations and acronyms?
Is there a way to force LaTeX to automatically use small-caps for abbreviations and acronyms (or more specifically, strings of two or more uppercase letters)?
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Acronyms with an arrow in front of them
I'm using the acronyms package and I wonder if there's an easy way of marking acronyms as such by putting an arrow in front of them?
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Why does the compiler keeps telling me (forever) to rerun because labels have changed?
I have a LaTeX paper (multifile setup, using \input{} statements) that , since a few days ago, keeps telling me at each compile (both with pdflatex or latex):
LaTeX Warning: Label(s) may have ...
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How can i use the LaTeX acronym package, and optionally create an acronym list in the document?
I write papers, reports, etc., and frequently use the same set of acronyms, so I thought it would be useful to just keep all the acronym definitions in a single file. Seems like the sensible approach ...
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How to escape ampersand in \acro command?
I am trying to use the acronym package to create an acronym list. The problem is that one of the acronyms I need to use contains an ampersand ('&').
But when I try to compile the .tex file I get ...
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How to render individual acronyms in lower case when used inline, but mixed case in the list of acronyms?
I would like to output acronyms with the first letter of a word in upper case when they are printed to the list of acronyms. However, it certain cases I would like to print the written out form in ...
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Abbreviations for AM, PM (small caps) for use within \textbf
I have been using \textsc for the abbreviations for AM, PM, but it does not work within \textbf{}. As you can see in the image, within a \textbf{}, it reverts to the normal lower case letter. Ulrike ...
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acronym package: don't write acronym if single occurence
I use the acronym package for managing acronyms. There is one option I am missing (couldn't find it in the manual): that is, suppressing the abbreviated form if the acronym occurs only once throughout ...
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Hyphenation does not work with acro and luatex, but with pdftex
I'm using luatex 0.70.1 together with acro 1.2 and I have the following MWE.
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{acro}
\DeclareAcronym{DNA}{
short=DNA,
...
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Typesetting mixed-case acronyms with numbers
What are the various alternatives to typeset acronyms that contain lowercase letters, lowercase letters and numbers?
For example, take the acronym SOA4All.
The naive way would be to typeset it just ...
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Parameter to the acronym environment changes the font of the acronym column
If I add a parameter to the acronym environment in order to set the width of the acronym column, the font of the text in the acronym column automatically changes. How can I prevent (or at least ...
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Problem with sorting of umlaute in a glossary (pkg glossaries)
I'm currently facing a problem concerning sorting of glossaries.
I'm writing my thesis in german, so I also have some umlaute like "ä","ö" and "ü" in my acronyms. For example there is an acronym ...
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Short titles, Journal abbreviations, etc. in biblatex
I've been making the switch toward using biblatex-chicago to replace an old .bst (now out-dated), but I'm still confused as to how biblatex handles short-forms and abbreviations. For example, when I ...
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Acronyms without double dots using glossaries
I want to typeset my acronyms with abbreviating dots with, for
instance, P.C.A. standing for principal component analysis and use
macros for them.
This question
provides a trick to avoid double dots ...
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Using acronyms at start of sentence
I want it to capitalize the first letter of an expanded acronym used at the start of a sentence, like:
Application programming interfaces (APIs) are ...
I tried to define a new command \Acp for ...
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How to define acronyms in ConTeXt?
The acronym packages allows one to easily create and display acronyms, with a simple syntax, like \ac{usb}. The first time this is called, is will say “Universal Serial Bus (USB)”, but after that, ...
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Using glossary in abbreviation causes issue: its written bold
I'm currently working on a thesis and having trouble with my glossary in connection with abbreviations.
I define an abbreviation that way:
\acro{conMan}[CMS]{\gls{CMS}}
In my glossary list file i ...
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Capitalize the first letter in acronym list
When using the acronym package I would like to capitalize the first letter in the acronym description (e.g., Direct current). But when used in text I would like to have the word in lower letters.
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Acronym at sentence start: capital or not?
The recommended way of typesetting acronyms is using small caps, e.g.:
This technique is called Remote Procedure Calling or {\scshape rpc}.
However, if the acronym occurs at the beginning of the ...
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Acronym list won't span more than one page
I found this problem by noticing that the acronym package acro was inserting a blank page before the acronym list. I then discovered that not only was it inserting this blank page, but that list of ...
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Is there a tool for generating journal names' abbreviations
Having a BibTeT file with full journal titles in it, I'm looking for a tool to construct a list of abbreviations following ISSN standard (it specifies how to abbreviate individual words, which should ...
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Best package for developing a List of Abbreviations
I'm in the process of writing a long document and need a List of abbreviations. I've been reading the LaTeX wiki book about this and have had a play with the packages nomencl and glossaries. What ...
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How to highlight important pages in glossaries page number list
In some books, the keywords page not only has a list of pages the keyword was referenced, it also bold or emphasize page numbers where the keyword was defined or explained. How do I do that with ...
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Do not display one special acronym in list of acronyms
In my document I use several acronyms which I do not wish to be displayed in the list of acronyms. This solution using the acronym-package unfortunately doesn't work as it clashes with my use of the ...
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Macro for typesetting acronyms
All-caps acronyms and brand names like IBM look better when typeset a little smaller than usual. My simple solution is the following macro:
\def\<#1>{{\small #1}}
It's used like here ...
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Acronyms in section names with classic thesis
I have troubles using acronym package with classicthesis package when I put an acronym in a section name. The least reproducible example I could come up with is this:
\documentclass{scrreprt}
% If I ...
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Acronyms like \ac and \acs with no hyperlink
I want to use acronym package for acronyms. And for that I use \ac and \acs in text and \caption or \section. However, in \caption and \section I don't want hyperlinks to the acronym table, but only ...
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Capitalising the first letter of an acronym?
I'm using the acronym package in my document and in several instances I want to start a sentence with the expanded acronym. Is there any way of telling the package to capitalise the first letter?
For ...
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How to invert long term to short term using ACRONYM list?
In my text, I'd like to have in first use of \ac the result (all my text is typed using \ac or \acp):
PC (Personal Computer)
So, normally the result is opposite:
Personal Computer (PC)
How ...
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Mixing uppercase, lowercase, and small caps?
The problem
I want to follow The Economist's example for annoyingly mixed-case words: letterspace them, capitalize the first letter according to normal rules, and set all other capitals as small ...
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Displaying acronyms, abbreviations, and units
I use the acronym package for displaying acronyms, such as "KFC". As most of the acronyms are common knowledge, I use \acs{kfc}, which only presents the short form. Also, the siuntix package can be ...
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Use of starred \ac commands in the acronym package
I'm trying to use the starred commands for the acronym package, i.e. \ac*, \acs*, \acl*, etc.
But, I can't seem to get the package not to set the AC@used flag (which I believe is used by the acronym ...
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Acronym hyperlink without special color
I use the acronym package for managing acronyms.
I would like to show the acronym hyperlink without special colors or borders, just as plain text.
Is there a way to do this?
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acronym does not hyphenate in text
I am using the latest version of acronym (acronym 2010/09/08 v1.36) with Lualatex (Version beta-0.70.2-2012060719) and have a long acronym consisting of six words which is not hyphenated correctly. ...
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Use full acronym name in TOC
I am trying to use \acf of the glossaries package in a \section command.
In my TOC I always get displayed the id, not the content. The generated section in the document works fine.
I was trying to ...
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Error when using \BC (from abbrevs) in \caption
I'm using the abbrevs package to provide nicer formatting of BC/AD in dates, but when I use one of the commands in a caption I get an error. Example document:
\documentclass{article}
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Acronyms list size
\appendix
\chapter{Acronyms}
\singlespace
\begin{acronym}
\acro{BLAS}{Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms}
\acro{CLR}{Common Language Runtime}
\acro{DBMS}{Data Base Management System}
...
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Using same margin-settings in acronym as in listoffigures
As the two pictures show, the first entry of listoffigures begins further to the right than in the case of my list of abbreviations. Is it - and if yes, how - possible to retrieve the margin-settings ...
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How to create both list of abbreviations and list of nomenclature using nomencl package?
I have searched for the whole day online, but all the threads indicate only realizing one of the lists by using nomencl package. I want to create both list of abbreviations AND list of nomenclature ...
