Questions tagged [acronyms]

{acronyms} is about formatting acronyms and abbreviations using customized commands or specific packages like acronym or {glossaries}.

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Acronyms are not expanded in Tabularray table

In my tabularray tables acronyms (with the acronym package) are not expanded like expected. Only the short form is printed, also if the acronym appears for the first time in the document. The ...
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List of Acronyms not showing up (using glossaries package)

I am using following code to print list of acronyms. It shows the correct acronyms in the text but no list is produced (when I use it on my desktop computer). Refer to first image below. However same ...
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Minimal setup for Glossaries including short forms?

I did not find any tutorial or question, which might help me with this issue. I am using \usepackage[acronym, nomain, automake, nopostdot, shortcuts]{glossaries-extra} \makeglossaries \printglossary[...
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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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Acronym glossary inconsistently prints entries

I am having a problem with the consistency of how Overleaf prints glossary entries, specifically acronyms. I am trying to set it up in the appendix of the document. When compiling it chooses to print ...
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Line breaks in long acronyms with the packages hyperref and acronym

I am using both the acronym and hyperref packages. If I use only one of them, there's nothing wrong but if I use both, then the auto line break does not work. I want automatic line break, can someone ...
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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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Is it possible to use \nabla in the abbreviations? [closed]

I am using \usepackage[printonlyused]{acronym} for the list of abbreviations and I'd like to define the abbreviation \acro{\nabla}{Volume of Displacement} but the errorcounter rises from 4 to 39 with ...
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make glossaries \glslink respect the first-use

I would like to have a \glslink-style command, that respects the first use flag of an abbreviation i.e. printing the abbreviation in parantheses if this is the first occurance. MWE: \documentclass{...
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The list of acronyms makes a space in the footnote [duplicate]

I am having a problem regarding the list of acronyms. Using a acronym in the text creates a footnote. Unfortunately the footnote automatically comes with a space compared to the footnote maually ...
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How to align list of abbreviations and symbols with other entries in table of contents

I have tried to align the List of Abbreviations and List of symbols with other entries in table of contents using the following: \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{...
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Chemistry acronym will not integrate correctly in the headline/TOC

I am using \usepackage{acronym} in my nomenclature. However, as I have to include a lot of chemistry in my report, it seems like the preamble setup result in the TOC showing the full acronym, even ...
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Using \alpha in my nomenclature using \usepackage{acronym}

I have to add the greek symbol \alpha to my nomenclature. I am using \usepackage{acronym}. However, I keep getting errors when compiling. My nomenclature: \begin{acronym}[MPC] \acro{\alpha}[\alpha]{...
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How to capitalize the first letter of a glossary or acronym description

I'm using the glossaries package to define acronyms but in one place I want to start a sentence with the full text of the acronym: \subsection{Randomly-occurring deterministic disturbances} \acrlong{...
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I would like to increase the description width of this acronyms list

\usepackage[acronym,toc,shortcuts]{glossaries} \makeglossaries \input{Glosario} \renewcommand*{\glspostdescription}{} % remove trailing dot \renewcommand{\glsnamefont}[1]{\textbf{#1}} \begin{document}...
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acronymns not showing up in latex document

all. I am trying to get a list of acronyms to show up in my document. I have a main "thesis.tex" file where I would like to put the acronyms after the list of figures and tables. In the ...
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Clickable acronyms with package {glossaries-extra}

I'm using the package glossaries-extra to define my acronyms. They appear in the short version in the text and the code correctly generates a list of abbreviations. The problem is that I can't click ...
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Glossary not working on Overleaf using separate tex files (main + different chapters)

I have the following document structure on Overleaf: main.tex \usepackage[acronym]{glossaries} \makeglossaries \newacronym{ner}{NER}{Named Entity Recognition} \begin{document} \include{propcover} \...
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Latex nomenclature bracket

\documentclass[12pt]{report} \usepackage[intoc]{nomencl} \renewcommand{\nomname}{List} \makenomenclature \begin{document} \tableofcontents \nomenclature{b}{bus} \nomenclature{(h)}{house} \...
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Add horizontal space in acronym environment to put the descriptions in line

As an appendix, I have a list of abbreviations in a seperate chapter (the tex-file is called "Glossar") like this: \chapter{Abkürzungsverzeichnis} \begin{acronym}\itemsep8pt \acro{AI} ...
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How to setup glossary, notation in latex

I tried to make glossary and notation, following a template, but it fails compilation. Could anybody assist? 1.) In main.tex file \usepackage[toc,style=list,acronym=true]{glossary} \setacronymnamefmt{...
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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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Math symbols as acronym

I need to add the math symbol \alpha in my acronym list, but I get the listed error message. Example text \ac{$alpha$} was identified with the following equation. \begin{align} \alpha & = \frac{(...
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A lowercase letter in acronym

I am using glossaries-extra package to handle the acronyms in my thesis. Some acronyms have a lowercase letter in the middle of uppercase letters. For instance, Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG). Is there ...
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How format glossary to avoid text exits from page right margin?

For some entries of the package glossaries (acronyms and glossary) the text exits from page margin. Here is a MWE: \documentclass[11pt,twoside]{book} %%%%% STYLE \usepackage[subpreambles=false]{...
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Specify articles for short and long forms of acronyms with glossaries-extra

TL;DR 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 change text position and get bold font for lists of symbols and of acronyms with glossaries package?

I inherited an overleaf template for a thesis, but the current glossary settings for lists of symbols and acronyms do not satisfy me. The current code with examples: \documentclass{article} \...
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How can i improve my acronym list creation macro in LuaLaTeX

How can i improve my acronym list creation macro in LuaLaTeX? The list of abbreviations should include first Cyrillic and then English terms. Thanks for the help. % !TeX program = lualatex % !TeX ...
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glossaries-extra package problems with sorting сyrillic abbreviations in LuaLaTeX

I have two issues: Sort the abbreviations so that the first ones are Cyrillic, and then the English terms? Change the style of the list of abbreviations as shown in the picture? How to do it through ...
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Linebreak in long abbreviation description

I'd like to have a linebreak inside the long abbreviation description. I tried it with \linebreak: \documentclass[ pdftex,a4paper,11pt,oneside,fleqn, bibliography=totoc,listof=totoc, ...
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Align descriptions of abbreviations in glossary-longextra

The descriptions of the abbreviations should be aligned. The abbreviations should be still on the left side. And there should be a bit more space between abbreviation and description. My .tex-file \...
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Uppercase word in acronyms, lowercase in text

My issue is similar to this post: Uppercase word in glossary, lowercase in text I would like to do the same like Nitram provided for the glossary (https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/69569/282853), but ...
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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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Change colour of acronyms only with glossaries package

I use \acrshort for acronyms I've defined with the package glossaries. I want to keep the hyperref link for acronyms but I would like to change the colour : black for acronyms when they appear in text ...
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Using the acronym package, how can I set an automatic linebreak in the long form of a newacronym?

Setting a new acronym with a very long longform, there is no linebreak within the glossary, so it generates an overfull hbox warning. The description works correct. The behaviour in the text and in ...
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Glossary acronym using a different way to display an entry

I am currently writing my thesis, and I created a list of acronyms at the end of my manuscript with the glossary package : \usepackage[acronym,toc,shortcuts]{glossaries} ... \printglossary[type=\...
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Sorting within list of symbols

I've created a design for a list of symbols, that I find a esthetically pleasing. I divided my list of symbols into the three main categories greek symbols, roman symbols and constants. I want the ...
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Errors when utilizing acronyms

When trying to create a nomenclature utilizing acronyms two errors mainly occur: I try to utilize $\dot{\bullet}$ in order to indicate a first order time derivative and I get a Missing \endcsname ...
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Arrange acronyms in alphabetical order

This is what I am currently using, \makeglossaries \setglossarystyle{altlist} \lhead{\emph{List of Acronyms}} \printglossary[type=\acronymtype, title=List of Acronyms, toctitle=List of Acronyms, ...
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Double hats in acronyms

I'm occasionally using double accents on symbols, e.g. double hats, using wipet's code from this question. I now found that these do not work in acronym environments (which I'd like to use to produce ...
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How to make custom Index of Symbols and Abbreviatons?

I want to make a custom Index of Symbols and Abbreviations list provided to me from my thesis template. Abbreviations should not be shown in the table of contents, only Index of Symbols and ...
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How to type & in acronym list on latex

I am adding the following acronym : \newacronym{D&IR}{D&IR}{Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology}\Gls{D&IR} However I end up with DIR Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology. How can I ...
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"Acronym" name in the head

I want to see the name of "Acronym" or "Abkürzungverzeichnis" as title and in the header of the page. This is the code: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \newcommand\ncoverline[1]{\...
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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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How to get list of acronyms and list of symbols alphabetically sorted while using groups?

In a document I have both a list of acronyms and a list of symbols. Everything fine (both lists automatically alphabetically sorted) until I decided I needed two different groups in the list of ...
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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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Any elegant way to tell LaTeX that a line break after an abbreviation is bad but not impossible?

LaTeX manuals are full of examples such as Fig.~5 or Thm.~10. The tilde prohibits a line break after the abbreviation completely, to make sure that the reader doesn't see a period at the end of a ...
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Usage of acronym package for non-trivial derived words

How should I use acronym package when I have pluralizations and derived words, for example \acro{FPGA}{Field-Programmable Gate Array} \acro{MIPS}{Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline ...
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Adding acronym in my document

I have to add acronym list in my document and for that I am using: \usepackage[acronym,style=long3col]{glossaries} \makeglossaries and \newacronym{LOWERCASE LABEL}{UPPERCASE LABEL}{THE FULL TERM}\par ...
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glossaries: align top acronyms in multicols

I'm printing acronyms with mcolalttree but it outputs a blank space for default in the first column.How to remove this rectangle and add space below title ? This is the code \documentclass{report} \...

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