English acronyms in a Greek document

Question

I am trying to make a acronyms list in a Greek document, but the english word appears with greek letters..My preamble is the following..

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{acronym}

\begin{document} 
\chapter*{Ακρωνύμια} 

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Ακρωνύμια} 

%place for all the ackronyms

\begin{acronym}[BisGMA]

\setlength{\itemsep}{-\parsep}

\acro{BisGMA}[\textit{BisGMA}]{Δικλυδικός μεθακρυλικός εστέρας της δισφαινόλης Α} 

\end{acronym}
\end{document}

Answer 1

Here are two possible solutions:

pdflatex

You need to load some additional packages:

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}

Then inside the second field of \newacro, add \selectlanguage{english} to typeset that word in Latin script.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{acronym}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}

\begin{document} 
\chapter*{Ακρωνύμια}   
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Ακρωνύμια} 

%place for all the ackronyms    
\begin{acronym}[BisGMA]

\setlength{\itemsep}{-\parsep}

\acro{BisGMA}[\selectlanguage{english}\textit{BisGMA}]{Δικλυδικός μεθακρυλικός εστέρας της δισφαινόλης Α} 

\end{acronym}   

\acl{BisGMA}
\end{document}

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xelatex

If you're willing to switch to this engine, you can choose any font you have on your OS that supports both scripts. I chose a random one, but you can change it to a different one.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{acronym}
\usepackage{fontspec}

\setmainfont[Script=Greek]{Times New Roman}

\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{greek}

\begin{document} 
\chapter*{Ακρωνύμια} 
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Ακρωνύμια} 

%place for all the ackronyms
\begin{acronym}[BisGMA]
\setlength{\itemsep}{-\parsep}

\acro{BisGMA}[\textit{BisGMA}]{Δικλυδικός μεθακρυλικός εστέρας της δισφαινόλης Α} 

\end{acronym}

\acl{BisGMA}
\end{document}