I am currently using the acronym
package to handle acronyms/abbreviations in my thesis.
I am writing in German, but I use a couple of English acronyms because either no German acronym exists or the English one simply more commonly used. So when introducing the acronym, I want/need to use the German word in text (as "long" form) but I want to include the English long form in parentheses alongside the (English) acronym. And of course, both German and English should show up in the list of acronyms.
- German Term: Steuergerät
- English Term: Electronic Control Unit
- Acronym: ECU
So in my text I'd like to have:
.... Steuergerät( Electronic Control Unit, ECU) ....
and later simply have
.... ECU ....
In the list of acronyms, it should show up as:
ECU Steuergerät (Electronic Control Unit)
or
ECU Electronic Control Unit (Steuergerät)
Is there a way to include a translation in the long version of an acronym?
EDIT: As pointed out by @NicolaTalbot, the use case is the same than Using the glossaries package for English acronyms in German documents. Is there a way to achieve this with the acronym
package as well or do I need to switch packages?
acronym
package as well?acronym
as I've never used that package. If you do decide to switch, theglossaries
package optionshortcuts
will enable commands like\ac
and\acs
.acro
package v1.3 provides theforeign
key for this.