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Best solution for acronyms, abbreviations, glossary and index
I want to have a glossary where I explain some terms or where I give a one sentence explanation and refer to the section where the
term is discussed in detail.
With the glossaries package, each ...
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Is is possible to not abbreviate the author name of only one reference in my bibliography?
Your problem is not caused by IEEEabrv.bib, which simply contains the abbreviated names of IEEE journals; it is rather caused by the style IEEEtran.bst, which is programmed to abbreviate author names.
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custom plural for the short form of an acronym using glossaries
In chapter 4 of the user manual the two options are plural and firstplural.
The change is simply: \newacronym[plural=cM,firstplural=centiMorgans (cM)]{cM}{cM}{centiMorgan} and the mwe with this ...
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Is is possible to not abbreviate the author name of only one reference in my bibliography?
The \relax solution didn't work for me, but putting the author in double brackets like this got rid of the problem:
author = {{The Agda Team}}
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Glossaries Package: No long form the first time using an acronym
The glossaries documentation describes a “first use flag” which determines whether an acronym is being used for the first time or not (and consequently, whether to print the full acronym):
First use ...
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Title case an acronym
\capitialisewords works by applying \makefirstuc to each space-separated element of its argument. In the case of \capitalisewords{\gls{src}}, there are no spaces in the argument, so it simply does \...
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How to print all the acronyms?
There are various methods. First is to use nonumberlist (either as a package option or in \printglossary) in combination with \glsaddall (which must be used after all acronyms have been defined).
For ...
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How to abbreviate journal name in citation
I have made a little Python script that processes a bibtex database, searching for the journal names and replacing them with their official abbreviation (taken from the Jabref source): https://gist....
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Extract first letter of each word, also after a special character like a dash
The datatool package provides \DTLinitials. For example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{datatool-base}
\begin{document}
\DTLinitials{This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.
This-...
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Using the correct indefinite article with acronyms and their full forms
This feature is available directly in the acronym package and I assume this was not the case when your question and David Carlisle's answer were posted. As you use \newacro (as opposed to \acro and \...
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glossaries: don't print single occurences
Upgrade to glossaries version 4.14 (I've only just uploaded it to CTAN, so you may need to wait a few days before it reaches the TeX distributions). This has a new command \glsenableentrycount which ...
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How to create both list of abbreviations and list of nomenclature using nomencl package?
It is indeed possible to have two separate lists using nomencl.
You can define them as groups with corresponding titles.
When doing so, you need to remove the main title by placing \renewcommand{\...
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How to abbreviate journal name in citation
betterbib (a small project of mine) now gives you a choice on the journal names; short ones are the default.
Simply install with
pip install betterbib
and run it over your bib file:
betterbib update ...
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Glossaries Package: No long form the first time using an acronym
\glsunsetall should mark them all used according to this answer. \glsunset{label} will do the same for a single acronym.
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Short form when acronym is first used in table
Just use \acrshort{} or \acs{} (this requires the shortcuts options of the glossaries package) in the table and it will force use of the short form. Then the later \gls{} in the main text thinks it's ...
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Plurals in acronyms when using the glossaries package
To override the default plural forms you can use the shortplural key for the short plural and longplural for the long plural. These should go in the optional argument:
\newacronym
[% options to ...
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Glossaries - expand acronyms for first-time use within each chapter
The simplest method is to insert \glsresetall at the start of each chapter. Since etoolbox is automatically loaded (by the base glossaries package), you can use etoolbox's \preto command:
\...
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Hashtag in Acronym
(Disclaimer: I'm absolutely sure there is a duplicate but I couldn't find it.)
From the acronym documentation:
In the acronym environment, acronyms are defined with the command:
\acro{<...
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First use of glossary entry with asterisk
You need a fairly up-to-date version of glossaries for this to work. (I think at least v4.0. The current version is 4.09.)
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage[acronyms]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\...
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Space between acronym entry and it description
In the preamble, redefine the macro \glstreepredesc to whatever should precede the acronym descriptions. Without modifying it, it will expand to a single space. If you redefine it as
\renewcommand\...
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Acronym package: Handling possessive case (apostrophe s)
Here's a method that defines the command \acposs which will expand to long's (short) on first use and short's on next use:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{acronym}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\...
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Abnormal distance in acronym list
This is actually a feature, not a bug, as the acronym list is printed as an index. Thus tNRA and TSH get closer because they both begin with t.
You can add the option nogroupskip, described on page ...
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Short titles, Journal abbreviations, etc. in biblatex
If you have shortjournal fields and use the biber backend, you can do
\DeclareSourcemap{%
\maps[datatype=bibtex]{
% Journal abbreviations
\map[overwrite]{
\step[fieldsource=...
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Can I make an "abbreviation expansion" in PDF visible?
The accsupp package implements the accessibility features defined in the PDF specification IS0-32000, Section 14.9. These features are aimed at improving readability of PDF documents for visually ...
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Bolding Math Acronyms
It's better not to use a math formula in the first argument of \acro, but you can have it in the optional argument, as in
\acro{M2C}[$\bm{M^{2}_c}$]{My Math Customized Acronym}
which uses the \bm ...
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Avoid s in footnote
You need to redefine the plural form with\acrodefplural
\begin{acronym}[Action]
\acro{HTML}{Hyper Text Markup Language}
\acrodefplural{HTML}[HTML]{Hyper Text Markup Languages}
\end{acronym}
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Glossaries Package and LaTeXTools
There are a few different ways this could be approached.
The traditional builder that LaTeXTools uses launches latexmk, so you can solve the issue the same way you would for latexmk, i.e., add a ....
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How to specify a context-sensitive command that decides whether to insert a blank after a '.'?
The xspace package takes care about whether to insert a space or not, but not whether it is supposed to be an inter-word-space or an inter-sentence-space.
As explained in this answer, you can use \@ ...
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