Questions tagged [acro]
The acro package enables the author to create acronyms in a simple way, and provides means to add them to different ‘classes’ of acronyms. Lists can be created of separate acronym classes.
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List of acronyms from acro package not displaying properly in a IEEEtran double-column document
I am currently writing an article using the IEEEtran class. I want to use the package acro to manage my acronyms and \printacronyms to display the acronyms list at the beginning of the article. It ...
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Acro Package Bug with Kerning
I've observed that the acro package bugs out the kerning. It makes the kerning pair apply incorrectly after the acronym. In my MWE, the second word in each pair has incorrect kerning. I've added an ...
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My accronyms don't appear in the document
I'm using acro.sty package and I have written my acronyms in abbreviations.tex file which is separated than main.tex, when I use \ac{} command e.g: \ac{ai}, the text appear in long version but not in ...
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Package acro, word gender feminine and masculine in French
I'm writing a document in French and I have to deal with gender forms of words with the acro package.
I would like to produce something like
tridimensionnelles (3D) (a feminine form) or ...
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Printing acronyms not in italics
When defining an acronym, I define its long version in italics because I want it to be written out in italics in the actual text. However, when I print the acronyms in the acronyms table in the very ...
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Acro package: using \aclp doesn't print defined long plural ending [closed]
I defined a long plural ending differently than 's'. It only appears when the acronym is used first in plural form. If I use \aclp it is printed with 's' instead of the defined ending. Short plural ...
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Adding list of acronyms without a title
I am using the acro package, and I have so many abbreviations that it fills more than one page. Therefore I would like to have two columns in the abbreviation list, and I have used the multicols ...
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Acro Package: Write abbreviation between long form
I am using the ACRO-package in my masterthesis. Is there a way to tell ACRO to put the abbrevation between a certain word of the long form, when using \acf?
Example:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Specify articles for short and long forms of acronyms with glossaries-extra
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Is there a way to specify different indefinite articles for short and long forms of abbreviations using glossaries-extra and bib2gls?
I recently transitioned my project from using the acronym ...
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How to get fancyhdr to correctly display my acro list of abbreviations chapter title, not the previous chapter's title?
Excuse the spaghetti code to make this MWE, but my report has a list of abbreviations before the list of contents and main body but after the list of tables.
The list of tables chapter name overflows ...
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acro's link-only-first option makes the (first) short appearance of an acronym wrongly linked to the last page of the document
The acro's documentation tells us:
When acro is used together with the package hyperref [ORT21] then you can make use of the following option:
make-links = true|false
If this is activated then every ...
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acro's \printacronyms fails for nested acronyms if inserted thanks to the \AtEndDocument hook
In the following MCE example, the acro's list of the acronyms \printacronyms is inserted, not in the document body, but in the preamble thanks to the hook \AtEndDocument and that works like a charm:
\...
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How to remove the topper part of an abbreviations page [duplicate]
I just want the bottom part of my abbreviation page. I am using acro. How can I remove the upper part?
Here is my latex code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{acro}
\DeclareAcronym{usa}{
short=...
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Create an abbreviation page with `acro` package
I am using a template copy from an Overleaf chemical engineering unit operations lab report template and wish to add an abbreviation page. However, the styling doesn't apply at all.
This is my code:
\...
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Error when using acro: 'long-short' of type 'acro-first' is (xtemplate) unknown
I just switched from overleaf to using vim for latex and executing everything on the commandline.
My code previously compiled without errors in Overleaf, but now i am getting a problem with acro.
MWE:
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Acronyms that include other acronyms (acro package)
I am using some acronyms that include some other acronyms (e.g., MRI and structural MRI) (acro package). I would like the output to be:
List of abbreviations
MRI magnetic resonance imaging
sMRI ...
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Package acro: How to increase line space between acronym entries
I am using the package acro for listing acronyms in my paper. It has no compatibility issues with my document class memoir, and is very easy to use. But, the default line space between acronym entries ...
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Handle bold/text whether in mathmode or not
I use acro package in a very large (1000+ pages) document.
For consistency reasons, it happens an acronym is in a formula.
My acro set up
\acsetup{
case-sensitive = true,
first-style ...
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How to omit acronyms with only a single occurrence in `acro`?
I thought that single = false is the correct option for this, however, the following MWE yields unexpected results:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{acro}
\acsetup{
single-style = long,
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acro plural with changing first word not last
In the normal text I want to see:
Europäischen Organisation für Kernforschung (CERN)
and in the list of abbreviations I want to have:
CERN Europäische Organisation für Kernforschung
So in my text ...
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Prevent repeated period after acronym
I use the acro package for acronyms. In the following example, I define the acronym "i.i.d.", which ends with a period. If I use it at the end of a sentence, I get two periods.
How can I ...
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acro package - key 'acro/first-long-format' missing
I try to use the option first-long-format of the acro-package. However, it fails to compile when this option is enabled.
Here the hopefully correct MWE:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{acro}
\...
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Reversed parentheses in acro when compiling with Xelatex
Parentheses are reversed in acro when compiling with Xelatex.
\documentclass[12pt, oneside]{book}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{acro}
\acsetup{
list/sort = true , % <=========...
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Footnotes with automatic final period not working with package acro
I have a little problem with my footnotes. I'm using a solution to add a period at the end of every \footnote{} (yes, I have to use \footnote{} and not \footcite{} because I have to add some text in ...
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Increase vertical gap between acronym heading and the body using \usepackage{acro}
I am using texmaker and have printed a list of acronyms using the package acro. However, I am unable to increase the vertical space between the acronym heading "List of Acronyms", and the ...
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center title of acronyms when using \usepackage{acro}
I am using texmaker and have printed a list of acronyms using the package acro. However, I am unable to center the heading of the acronyms (List of Acronyms) as this is a specific requirement for my ...
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Align Acronyms heading with TOC, LOF and LOT [duplicate]
I am writing my dissertation and I am struggling to get the List of Abbreviations header to be aligned with the headers for the TOC, LOF, and LOT. I have looked around but could not find a suitable ...
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Multi-column, aligned acronym list with acro package (article class and acro version 3.x)
To make a long story short, I have the same question as already mentioned in acro 3.3 format listing and How to make a multi-column acronym list with acro package, aligned and with short definition in ...
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Capitalize first letter in list of acronyms using the acro package
How can I capitalize the first letter in the list of acronyms with the acro package without adjusting all acronym declarations? A solution that capitalizes all first letters of all words would also be ...
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Extra space with \ensuremath in acro
Following this previous question, I have in my acronyms the same pattern I define in a \newcommand\BS.
However, when I use \ensuremath and type my acronym with no math environment, I get an obvious ...
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Issue printing acronyms over 5 characters using IEEETran class
I am using the IEEEtran class and I came up with an issue with an acronym.
I can imagine this is caused by the length of the short text of the acronmym but after checking for possible solutions or ...
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How to tweak expansion of acro entry in section/chapter title and ToC?
Same question as this one but regarding the acro package.
How shall I prevent expansion in section, title and ToC?
MWE
%\documentclass{book}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{acro}
\...
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Trouble with acronyms first used in longtable
I am using the acro package. I use some acronyms several times in a longtable and I have them defined with \acs. The thing is that, when those acronyms appear in the text for the first time, the short ...
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Why do acronyms made with the acro package not appear correctly when they are first called in table captions? [duplicate]
I am using the acro package to handle the acronyms in my text. When using the \ac{} command to call up an acronym for the first time, it is expected that the acronym will be printed in "long form ...
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acro package: move translation to the next line with long table
I have a similar problem like described here: acro: move translation to the next line for selected acronyms only
I want the entry type "foreign" in the next line but with the pre-defined ...
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Latex: acro prints abbreviations list out of order when special characters are involved
I am using the acro package in Latex, and would like my list of abbreviations to print alphabetically (the default usage of \printacronyms). However, one of my abbreviations is in italics, and acro ...
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Error handling of "Acronym not defined" in acro package
I have long document (900+ pages) with 500+ acronym references.
I use acro package I am happy with... until it has to handle errors. Once acro finds an acronym he's not aware of (often mispelled), it ...
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Sub entry in index with acro/imakeidx
I am missing something on how to enter a sub-entry in the index generated by acro/imakeidx.
assetclass not understood as a sub-entry of asset.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{acro}
\usepackage{...
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slow compilations with acro package?
I am using the acro package.
It includes an interesting foreign key feature that fits my needs.
I \input{myacronyms.tex}, with myacronyms.tex contains circa 450 acronyms as described below.
\...
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Acro: How to override what page is mentioned in the list of abbreviations?
I am using the Acro v3.5 package for my LaTeX file to create a list of abbreviations at the beginning of my document. In this list, I include the first occurrence of every abbreviation (with included ...
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Acro package update errors
I have been using texlive 2019 with acro Version 2.9, when I upgrade the latex distribution to 2021 with acro V3.5, I got too many errors, it is a 300 pages docment, how to solve the errors without ...
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How can I make my source adapt to changes in the names of commands in different versions of a package?
I am trying to compile a document on two systems (one is Overleaf) and they appear to have differences in their texlive installation, specifically in the version of the acro package. On one system, I ...
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List of Acronyms: A dotted line between the the abbreviated form and the full form [duplicate]
i am using the acro package for the acronyms and the \printacronyms command to get the list of the acronyms.
What i wanted to have is a list in the following style:
short abbreviated form ................
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Error trying to use acro v3.5 [closed]
As soon as I use acro version 3.5 I get an error in the acro.sty file saying that
acro.sty (line 57)
Undefined control sequence. (\hook_gput_code:nnn ...)
My LaTeX code start as follows:
\...
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Package "acro": Displaying umlaut in PDF bookmark for acronyms list
MWE:
% !TeX program = xelatex
\documentclass[ngerman,]{scrreprt}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{acro}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\printacronyms
\end{document}
The PDF ...
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How to set the width of the pages column in printacronyms of acro package
I am using the acro package to manage my abbreviations and other symbols.
Thus I have defined a class for these acronyms and would like to a list for each class in the style of the list of figures.
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How to use Acro with English and another RTL language
I would like to use Persian or Hebrew and English in Acro package, but it doesn't work simply, and for the list of acronyms, I want it to fit within the same line.
%!TEX program = xelatex
\...
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Same acronyms for different words with acro package
I have different words with same acronym (FE finite element/ferroelectric).
I've found two similar discussions, though none of them were using acro package.
I was wondering is it possible to do it ...
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Hyperref does not work with acro package
I got the following error:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!
! keyvalue error: "option-unknown"
!
! Unknown option 'make-links' for package .
!
! See the keyvalue ...
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the correct order Acronyms
Hey how can I get the correct order of the Acronyms in the same order in the Dokument \input{Acronyms}.
Obviously he does automatic sorting
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