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I have a little problem with my footnotes. I'm using a solution to add a period at the end of every \footnote{} (yes, I have to use \footnote{} and not \footcite{} because I have to add some text in my footnotes, too) and most of the time it works fine. But when I'm using an acronym (\ac{}) that is at the at of a sentence in a footnote it doesn't work. I'm pretty sure it's because of the \acdot which provides that at the end of a sentence (in the main text) won't be two dots. But I have no clue how to solve this problem. Hopefully, someone could help me.

MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{scrbook}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage[german=guillemets]{csquotes}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[style=german-legal-book]{biblatex}


\addbibresource{mylit.bib}


\bibliography{mylit}
\begin{filecontents}{mylit.bib}
@article{Smith,
Author={Smith, John},
Journal={ExamplePaper},
Title={Titel},
Year={2006},
Number={5},
Pages={1--10}
}
\end{filecontents}


\usepackage{acro}
\acsetup{
  list/template  = styleabbrev,
  list/heading   = chapter,
  list/name      = Abkürzungsverzeichnis
}


\DeclareAcronym{mwN}{
short = m.~w.~N\acdot ,
long = mit weiterem Nachweis ,
first-style = short
}


\let\orgfootnote\footnote
\newcommand\myautodot{%
\ifthenelse{\the\spacefactor>\sfcode`,}{}{.}%
}
\renewcommand\footnote[2][\empty]{%
\ifx#1\empty%
\orgfootnote{\normalsfcodes#2\myautodot}%
\else%
\orgfootnote[#1]{\normalsfcodes#2\myautodot}%
\fi%
}


\begin{document}


There are no two dots at the end of sentence \ac{mwN}.\footnote{And here in the footnote is a dot at the end of the sentence}


Some text.\footnote{No two dots at the end of the sentence.}


Some more text.\footnote{Some text \cite[2]{Smith}}


Different text.\footnote{I like \cite[4]{Smith}.}


Here is a dot.\footnote{But here, I only want one dot not two \ac{mwN}}


\end{document}
stbu
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acro is configured to look for a literal . and absorb that if present, we have a similar problem to yours using just

\newcommand\mydot{.}
\ac{mwN}\mydot

in the main text.

In order to have \myautodot be absorbed acro needs to be told that it is a trailing character that \acdot-type macros may wish to absorb, and should be allowed to with the register (documented erroneously as define) and activate keys. Assuming we always want \acdot to absorb both . and \myautodot we can redefine it so it looks for dot (the internal name acro uses for .) and autodot (which is what we've named \myautodot)

\acsetup{
trailing/register = \myautodot {autodot},
trailing/activate = {autodot}
}
\renewcommand*\acdot{\aciftrailing{dot,autodot}{}{\abbrdot}}
Dai Bowen
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