\acfi - an italic full definition in the acro package

Question

I noticed that the \acfi{LSTM} macro, which I know from the acronym package, is, however, not available in the acro package. It styles the full definition italic like:

long short-term memory (LSTM)

I came across this question "acro package: Italicize first occurrence of term" where all the first occurrences of an abbreviation are italicized via

\acsetup{first-long-format=\itshape}

However, as I only want to highlight specific terms and work with reintroductions of terms, this doesn't help in my use case -- as I need the full flexibility. Which options are available to achieve this?

Answer 1

You can use the optional argument to \acf:

\acf[format/long=\itshape]{LSTM}

or define a command for this yourself:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{acro}
\DeclareAcronym{LTSM}{
  short = LTSM ,
  long  = long short-term memory
}
\newcommand\acfi[2][]{\acf[#1,format/long=\itshape]{#2}}
\begin{document}
\acf[format/long=\itshape]{LTSM}
\acfi{LTSM}
\end{document}