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I'm using the acronym package.

I have in two chapters the acronym MAC one time for "Media Access Control" and in the second chapter as "Message Authentication Code".

How can I use both MACs?

Is a other package better?

rekire
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    Maybe the answer to this question will answer yours too: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/42214/managing-acronyms-with-a-macro-that-preserves-the-full-name – Philipp Jan 26 '12 at 12:10

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You definitely should use different acronyms/abbreviations for the two. Otherwise, it wouldn't be possible to distinguish between the two.

You could typeset one in small caps (\textsc{}) and one in a monospaced typeface (\texttt{}) but it's not ideal.

Another solution is using \textsc{mac} for media access control and \textsc{ma}u\textsc{c} for message authentication code.

BTW, your problem isn't that uncommon. For example, consider the abbreviation CSP. I've found the following different usages:

  • Communicating Sequential Process;
  • Constraint Satisfaction Problem;
  • Constant Sign Partition;
  • 192 more abbreviations omitted