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I'm trying to make my acronym short hand a mix of upper and lower case for example PoE versus what it currently does by default which is POE

So far I have tried the \lowercase \MakeLowercase and including the label and custom acro aka: 

{poe}[PoE]{Power over Ethernet}

Thank you for your help in advance for this :)

EDIT Added MWE of the glossary page below, the full template was borrowed form (https://github.com/briandealwis/ubcdiss): 

%% The following is a directive for TeXShop to indicate the main file
%%!TEX root = diss.tex

\chapter{Glossary}

%This glossary uses the handy \latexpackage{acroynym} package to    automaticallymaintain the glossary.  It uses the package's    \texttt{printonlyused}option to include only those acronyms explicitly  referenced in the\LaTeX\ source.

% use \acrodef to define an acronym, but no listing
\acrodef{UI}{user interface}

% The acronym environment will typeset only those acronyms that were
% *actually used* in the course of the document
\begin{acronym}[ANOVA]
%Begin template acronyms that were not removed

\acro{PoE}[PoE]{application programming interface}
\acro{DOI}{Document Object Identifier\acroextra{ (see\url{http://doi.org})}}
\end{acronym}
Dai Bowen
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John Smith
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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! Please help us help you and add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. Reproducing the problem and finding out what the issue is will be much easier when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. – Dai Bowen Nov 14 '16 at 00:44
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    An MWE will be necessary here. Your code snippet looks like it is from the acronym package but you say you use the acro package (in acro acronyms are defined through key-value lists) please confirm which package is being used. Either way I cannot replicate your problem with either package with what little has been posed here, please do construct an MWE which we can copy and compile to replicate your problem with POE appearing instead of PoE. – Dai Bowen Nov 14 '16 at 01:00
  • Done. As mentioned the template used for the document is the one provided at the link, the settings of the template were not altered. – John Smith Nov 14 '16 at 02:50
  • We'll need the full preamble so we can just download your code and compile it. Having checked last time I used acronym plus an answer I wrote using it you should be able to use whatever case you want. i.e. \acro{poe}[PoE]{Power over Ethernet} or \acro{PoE}{Power over Ethernet} should just work. I wonder if there's something odd in your template. – Chris H Nov 14 '16 at 09:18
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    Your code clearly shows that you are not using the acro package! – cgnieder Nov 14 '16 at 20:11

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I suspect you're getting small caps rather than capitals. In diss.tex there's the line (with comments).

%% The ubcdiss.cls loads the `textcase' package which provides commands
%% for upper-casing and lower-casing text.  The following causes
%% the acronym package to typeset acronyms in small-caps
%% as recommended by Bringhurst.
\renewcommand{\acsfont}[1]{{\scshape \MakeTextLowercase{#1}}}

Just delete this line and you should be fine.

This is a reason to be wary of someone else's template.

Chris H
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  • I'd say it's bad form to impose a formatting decision like this without documenting it or ideally making it optional and coumenting to option. Plenty of fields use mixed-case acronyms; they could be served by dropping the \MakeTextLowercase and using small caps as they're meant to be used -- if you really want small caps. – Chris H Nov 14 '16 at 09:29
  • Thank you! I was looking for this one but seem to have missed it :D
    @Chris_H I realize now that is true, however this is the template that my institution uses (either this or the word template which is a lot more cumbersome) so I went with the lesser evil there.     – John Smith Nov 15 '16 at 01:51