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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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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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Acronym upper/lower/mixed case, and pluralisation
My question is really a further question of this post.
I've used the following code from there in my tex doc.:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{acronym}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
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Acronyms in upper/lower case [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to render individual acronyms in lower case when used inline, but mixed case in the list of acronyms?
I'm using the acronym package. When I use an acronym in full, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How to uppercase/lowercase the ending 's' in plural acronyms
I'm using a template that somebody else has created, so I don't know if the default LaTeX acronym option is to upper- or lowercase the ending 's', but I would like to have it lowercase. Currently it ...
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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 ...
