Questions tagged [acronyms]
{acronyms} is about formatting acronyms and abbreviations using customized commands or specific packages like acronym or {glossaries}.
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Acronym package: Reset specific acronym
I'm using the acronym package to produce a list of abbreviations and acronyms. Now, I want that the full name is printed for one acronym on a specific place after it has been already used.
Example:
\...
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Customization of glossaries-extra
I use the glossaries-extra package with this preamble:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[...
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Change the display of ( ) in a - in the glossaries package
I'm using the glossaries package and when I use \gls for the first time it shows "Complete name (acronym)"
How I can change the ( ) with a single - so it prints "Complete name - acronym"?
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Customize acronyms usage of first use
So I have a list of acronyms defined with the glossaries package, like such:
\newacronym{mac}{MAC}{Medium Access Control}
but also some of these:
\newcommand{\mk}{Master Key}
because the latter ...
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Getting errors using Acro for abbreviations and acronyms: Undefined Control Sequence in acro.sty
I've been trying to use acro for abbreviating terms in a report. It mostly works but each compile requires intervention to complete and does something to my first page, leaves an =1 and a page break. ...
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Showing List of Acronyms without a result
I'm trying to create a list of acronyms with Glossary.
My main .tex use a \documentclass{Dissertate}
Before trying using Glossary I had a .tex where manually added the acronym. To print on my document ...
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Aligned at the same margins acronym and listofsymbols
First of all, I know, that it would be much easier to use the glossaries package. However, maybe there is still a solution to my question. Here is a short MWE:
\documentclass[ngerman]{article}
\...
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How to set a user-style for abbreviations with glossaries-extra?
I used glossaries package to create a list of acronyms and made my own glossary style, like in MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[nopostdot,nonumberlist,acronym]{glossaries}
\newglossarystyle{...
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Different abbreviation options for the same acronym in glossary
I want to be able to have an acronym in glossary, which when referred to with \gls{} would appear in the main text in a standard form, unless specified otherwise.
I.e. i have the following acronyms:
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Chaining \newacronym with \newglossaryentry
I am trying to do the following
define a glossary entry with \newglossaryentry for Private Key Infrastructure [gls:pki]
define a acronym with \newacroynm for PKI with long form referencing to \gls(...
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Glossaries in section headings without shortening after TOC
here is another question from my LateX project.
Currently I'm using the package glossaries to mange my acronyms. I use some acronyms in sectionheadings. Therefore the acronym is first discribed in the ...
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Acronym not properly displayed in List of Acronyms
When i am typing a list of acronym:
\newacronym{tde}{TDE}{Time Delay Estimation}
\newacronym{tdoa}{TDOA}{Time Difference Of Arrival}
and in the text i am using these acronyms such as:
two ...
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Adding a feature to the acronym package
I am trying to add four specific features to the acronym package and plug it into Overleaf:
\acrounlisted - creates an unlisted acronym, which would be treated like an acronym (in that the first time ...
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Nomenclature and Abbreviations LaTeX
Currently, I am working on my Master's Thesis in LaTeX and I want to put a List of Abbreviations and Nomenclature in the same fashion you can put a list of figures and Tables.
I have no problems ...
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How to make only a list of abbreviations?
I am using How to create both list of abbreviations and list of nomenclature using nomencl package? to create a list of abbreviations. The code is below:
\usepackage{nomencl}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\...
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How does one use the \abbrlist command?
I am trying to compile a list of abbreviations for my PhD dissertation. The Latex template (Cornell) suggest I use the \abbrlist command but I can't seem to be able to generate a list with acronyms ...
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Cite first instance of an acronym
I'm using the acronyms in the glossaries package such that I can do this:
\newacronym{MIRDD}{MIRDD}{Mid-Infrared Diagnostic Diagram}
\gls{MIRDD}
\gls{MIRDD}
This stores the acronym and then prints
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Linguistic glosses with Leipzig package including morpheme boundaries
I just started using LaTeX and am using the Leipzig-package for linguistic glosses, that I also want to appear in a glossary. In the Leipzig package only the glosses themselves are defined, while ...
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Cite books with abbrevations in a specific style
I have many books from one author which I need to cite with abbrevations in a specific style: ([AbbrevationBook] [Paragraph] [:] [PageNumber]) so that the result looks like this: "Lorem ipsum..." (SM ...
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Cannot see the acronyms list
I ma using a template in overleaf and I have this chapter for achronyms:
\chapter{List of acronyms}
{\small
\begin{acronym}[XXXXXXXX]
\Acro{GNU} {\acs{GNU} is Not Unix}
\acro{OO} {...
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Increasing Space between Abbreviation and Full text in Acronym List
I am inserting some acronyms in a two-column scientific paper. Few of my abbreviations are large and are overlapping with their definitions. I am using acro package. Is there any way to increase the ...
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Print list of acronyms tabulated / in table form
I am using the package
\usepackage{acronym}
and apply it like this
\begin{acronym}
\acro{DNA}{Deoxyribonucleic Acid}
...
\end{acronym}
which yields
As can be seen, the long forms of the ...
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Is Non-breaking space (~) required for \gls commands of the glossaries(extra) package(s)?
There is a really quick question.
Should I use a non-breaking space ~ in front of the \gls commands (for acronyms in my document) when using the glossaries-extra package?
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Changing \parskip in List of Abbreviations (glossaries)
I am creating a document, in which I need a List of Abbreviations. I liked the style alttree, so I use it.
Now, I want to change the distance between the entries in the LOA, so to say change the \...
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Glossaries-extra modification of sample list of acronyms
I would like to modify one of the sample List of Abbreviations in the following code:
\documentclass [a4paper, 12pt, twoside] {article}
\usepackage [czech] {babel} ...
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How does text styling for synonyms work in ConTeXt?
So I set up synonyms (here abbreviations) similar to the example on the Wiki (and expanded for first use as in this post).
\definesynonyms [abbreviation][abbreviations][\infull]
\setupsynonyms ...
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Acronyms in LaTeX with lowercase and uppercase plurals and singular forms?
I am using the Glossaries package to write acronyms (i.e. abbreviations) using \gls{}, \Gls{}, acrlong{}, acrlongpl{}, acrshort{}, acrshortpl{} ... the whole family. I have 2 pages that appear in my ...
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How do I increase the space between the abbreviation and definition?
I'm using the glossaries package to create a list of abbreviations.
I would like to set the horizontal space between the abbreviation and definition to 2.5 cm. I realise this question has been asked ...
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Make first letter uppercase using the acronym package [duplicate]
Using the acronym package if I start a sentence using the command \ac{ABC} the first letter of the expanded acronym is lower case.
I tried to define a command:
\newcommand{\Ac}[1]{\xmakefirstuc{\ac{#...
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How to style first acronym and first glossary appearance
I would like to define the following styling for my acronyms and glossary in my latex project.
or look here for a small example in Overleaf
Currently I have tried it with the following code but the ...
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How to print a full acronym in inverse (long form in parentheses)
I'm using the acronym package, and when referencing my acronyms with \ac, they're printed as long name (abbreviation).
However, I would like them to be printed as abbreviation (long name). Is there ...
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List of abbreviation and symbols in thesis
I am working on my thesis and done with all other things except including list of abbreviations and symbols. I found different solution from various threads while searching online but most of the ...
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Acronym - german word, english abbreviation
I am dealing with abbreviations. My most ones are in english, but my text is in german. Since it is not necessary to write out the long English word in the text, I only want it to be listed in the ...
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Acronym aliases with acro
I am trying to define a command that would easily create aliases for acronyms defined with the acro package. I would like to define dozens of aliases of different acronyms without having to duplicate ...
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Glossaries,acronym, symbols, etc. per chapter with style super so that description part aligned vertically for clear readability
I am using the sample code provided by TEX.SX provided by Talbot and also here and here where I have commented for a solution, which is for glossary per chapter. But here the glossaries are not ...
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Glossaries-extra: how to always expand the first plural use of an acronym?
The question is regarding the first plural usage of acronyms. Consider the following MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{glossaries-extra}
\setabbreviationstyle{long-short}
\newacronym{adc}{ADC}...
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How to use the et al citation in AAAI style
I'm using \bibliographystyle{AAAI} style and I want to use et al type of referencing when I cite within the text. I've seen papers written in that style which used such an abbreviation, but I do not ...
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Transform list of acronyms into a table
I am using the following packages to generate a list of Acronym.
would you let me know whether it is possible to put the list of acronym in a table.
\usepackage{acronym}
\acrodef{EX}[EX]{\emph{...
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Problems printing Acronyms
I'm having problems printing a page with acronyms.
I have tried the examples/solutions provided in
How to print all the acronyms?
or
glossaries package is printing all entries under acronyms
with no ...
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How to change glossary style for particular instances?
I have a glossary entry for FBI as shown in MWE. At some instance I would like to expand the acronym and emphasize the long version, but with the same glossary entry.
Is it possible to change the ...
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How to automatically put a colorized underline under my glossary entries and acronyms?
I want that all my glossary entries and acronyms are underline and that the underline are colorized.
I'm using this configuration so by default all hyperref links are hidden.
\usepackage{hyperref}
\...
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Changing comma to semicolon before citation with the acro package
I am using the acro package to introduce acronyms with appropriate citations. I am almost able to get what I need, but with one small issue.
I would like to introduce acronyms in the form "...
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Problem with acronyms when using glossaries and imakeidx packages
I am writing my dissertation in Yathesis class and I need to produce an acronyms list, a biliography as well as two different indexes of authors.
The code below is working fine until I activate the ...
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biblatex: use abbreviations in citation but not in bibliography
using biblatex, I'd like to have these two things:
abbreviated style in the postnote of a citation: \cite[42]{xyz} should give "[1, p. 42]" instead of "[1, page 42]".
no abbreviations in the ...
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glossaries: acronyms: How to display only the first appearance of an acronym among the Abbreviations if only its short form is used in the text?
I would like to display the place of the first appearance of all acronyms, used in my text, but for some acronyms I prefer to use only the short form (even for the first usage). My question is similar ...
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Command for obtaining plural form of forced short & long use of acronyms in glossaries-extra
The glossaries-extra user guide recommends the usage of glsfmtshort and glsfmtlong within section headings and table/figure captions.
The question is regarding the plural usage of these forced ...
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Incorrect behaviour of author abbreviation using biblatex-apa
I want to use biblatex-apa with biber-backend to create a bibliography. I use the shortauthor-tag, so that the full names of the organizations only appear once, and only abbreviations afterwards. This ...
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Include graphics in new acronym command
I want to include an image in my List of Abbreviations. So far I have:
\documentclass[11pt, letterpaper, twoside, openright]{book}
\usepackage{graphicx} % images
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[...
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Don't create an acronym if it only appears once
I'm using the package:
\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}
and defining them as:
\newacronym{abs}{ABS}{Agent-Based System}
and calling it using:
\gls{abs}
But is there any way to not list the ...
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Prevent line-breaking inside acronym which contains a hyphen (“dash”) character [duplicate]
How can I prevent line-breaking of an acronym which contains a hyphen? I have the acronym "AP-CMOS" all over my document, and it's been broken in several places into "AP-" and "CMOS". The same occurs ...
