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

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How to pluralize an acronym which ends in 'S' correctly?

When using the acronym package, how can you correctly pluralize an acronym which ends on 'S'? Take the acronym: OS - operating system It should be pluralized as OS's, but is pluralized as OSs when using \acp.
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How can i use the LaTeX acronym package, and optionally create an acronym list in the document?

I write papers, reports, etc., and frequently use the same set of acronyms, so I thought it would be useful to just keep all the acronym definitions in a single file. Seems like the sensible approach to me. The problem is that sometimes I do want…
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Acronym package: Full name after each section / chapter

I'm using the acronym package to produce a list of abbreviations and acronyms. Now, I want that the full name is printed after every new section and/or chapter. For example: \acro{PC}{Personal Computer} The usage would be: Chapter 1: \ac{PC} with…
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acronym package: don't write acronym if single occurence

I use the acronym package for managing acronyms. There is one option I am missing (couldn't find it in the manual): that is, suppressing the abbreviated form if the acronym occurs only once throughout the text. (The reasoning being that there is no…
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Managing acronyms with a macro that preserves the full name

I use the acronym package to create and manage acronyms in my document, e.g.: \newacro{css}[CSS]{Cascading Style Sheets} Can you use \ac{css}? However, sometimes I must add typesetting to documents which already have acronyms typed out entirely,…
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Best package for developing a List of Abbreviations

I'm in the process of writing a long document and need a List of abbreviations. I've been reading the LaTeX wiki book about this and have had a play with the packages nomencl and glossaries. What package is the most straight forward for developing a…
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acro package: Italicize first occurrence of term

I am using the acro package for acronyms because, for a phrase that is not a proper name, I can have the first letter of each word uncapitalized except when it starts off a sentence, in which case the very first letter of the phrase is capitalized.…
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Use of starred \ac commands in the acronym package

I'm trying to use the starred commands for the acronym package, i.e. \ac*, \acs*, \acl*, etc. But, I can't seem to get the package not to set the AC@used flag (which I believe is used by the acronym package to track commands that are used in the…
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How to add translation to long form of acronym?

I am currently using the acronym package to handle acronyms/abbreviations in my thesis. I am writing in German, but I use a couple of English acronyms because either no German acronym exists or the English one simply more commonly used. So when…
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Acronym package: Handling possessive case (apostrophe s)

How do I handle the possessive form of an acronym using the acronym package? Acronym definition: \begin{acronym} \acro{FBI}{Federal Bureau of Investigation} \end{acronym} Usage: The \ac{FBI}'s plan. The \ac{FBI}'s plan. Result: The Federal Bureau…
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List of Acronyms without line spacing

I use the acronym-package for my acronyms. To create my List of Acronyms I have the following code in my main.tex: \usepackage[printonlyused, withpage]{acronym} ... \section*{List of Acronyms} \input{../assets/acronyms} and the acronyms.tex looks…
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How to define a command for putting periods in abbreviations (initialisms)?

Is there an easy way to define a command that takes a word (an initialism) and inserts a period after every character? That is, I would like to define a command \init{abc} that outputs "A.B.C." (making no assumption on the number of characters in…
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Creating abbreviations list with manual entries

How do I create list of abbreviations if I want to add them manually and not tag each abbreaviation in the file first (the file is already written)?
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Acronyms like \ac and \acs with no hyperlink

I want to use acronym package for acronyms. And for that I use \ac and \acs in text and \caption or \section. However, in \caption and \section I don't want hyperlinks to the acronym table, but only in the text. Therefore, is there a way to define…
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Acronym, swap description and acronym

I'm using the acronym package. Normally, if I enter an acronym like this: This is a system with \ac{LTI} propertiesSystem. It can be ... The pdf shows something like this: This is a system with linear, time invariant (LTI) properties. It can be…
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