I am using the acro
package for acronyms because, for a phrase that is not a proper name, I can have the first letter of each word uncapitalized except when it starts off a sentence, in which case the very first letter of the phrase is capitalized. Like other packages, it allows user-specification of plural forms for the acronym and the long phrase. Unlike other packages, it provides these capabilities without having to externally make an index. It is not a full fledge glossary package, but it meets my needs for acronyms.
For the acro
package, is there a way to italicize the first occurrence of the phrase, when the acronym is introduced, but without italicizing the acronym itself? The vanilla way of introducing a phrase and its acronym is \ac{label}
, which expands to the phrase followed by its acronym in brackets. The command \textit{\ac{label}}
causes both the phrase and the acronym to be italicized.
I know that the acronym
package (as opposed to the acro
package) does the proper italicization with \acfi{label}
, at least according to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/pub//tex/macros/lat ... cronym.pdf. However, this is not recognized using the acro
package.
I'm not sure if a MWE is needed for this question, but here is a toy file:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{acro}
\DeclareAcronym{abc}{
short=ABC,
long=alpha bettick crisps
}
\begin{document}
The objective of this report is to test acronyms like
\ac{abc}. \acresetall \Ac{abc} are delicious.
\acresetall
\textit{\ac{abc}}.
\cleardoublepage
\printacronyms[%
name = {Abbreviations},
sort = false
]
\end{document}