[Tex/LaTex] Acronyms in section names with classic thesis

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I have troubles using acronym package with classicthesis package when I put an acronym in a section name. The least reproducible example I could come up with is this:

\documentclass{scrreprt}

% If I remove the option 'pdfspacing' I got this error:
%
% ! Argument of \@acl has an extra }.
% <inserted text>
%                 \par
%l.21 \section{\acl{GRASP}}

\usepackage[pdfspacing]{classicthesis}

\usepackage{acronym}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents{}

\chapter{Algorithms}

Details about algorithms.

\section{\acl{GRASP}}

Initial solutions are constructed using \ac{GRASP}.

\chapter{Acronyms}

\begin{acronym}
  \acro{GRASP}{Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure}
\end{acronym}

\end{document}

If I run Latex (three times) I got this warning:

...

Package acronym Warning: Acronym `grasp' is not defined on input line 25.


LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/pplj/bx/sc' undefined
(Font)              using `OT1/pplj/bx/n' instead on input line 25.

[2]
Chapter 2.
[3] (C:\Users\claudio\Desktop\text\thesis.aux)

LaTeX Font Warning: Some font shapes were not available, defaults substituted.

)
(see the transcript file for additional information)pdfTeX warning (dest): name
{GRASP} has been referenced but does not exist, replaced by a fixed one

...

And in the PDF the section title says grasp!, while other entries are correctly replaced with the acronym.

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The only related line I found in the log file (is that the transcript file?) says this:

Package acronym Info: Label `acro:GRASP' newly defined as it shall be overridden
although it is yet undefined on input line 27.

But I have no idea how to fix it.

If I comment out the two classicthesis related lines everything is fine.

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The error is due to the fact that classicthesis upper- and lowercase the headings. Try using the package textcase with the overload option and enclose the acronym-command with a \NoCaseChange in titles and heading. This MWE compiled fine for me (only one warning regarding an overfull box):

\documentclass{scrreprt}

\usepackage[overload]{textcase}
\usepackage[pdfspacing]{classicthesis}
\usepackage{acronym}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents{}

\chapter{Algorithms}
Details about algorithms.

\section{\NoCaseChange{\acl{GRASP}}}
Initial solutions are constructed using \ac{GRASP}.

\chapter{Acronyms}
\begin{acronym}
  \acro{GRASP}{Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure}
\end{acronym}

\end{document}

One comment regarding the typography: You should format the acronym as the text, i.e. in spaced small caps (ref:Bringhurst).

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[Tex/LaTex] Small caps acronyms with classic thesis

This is only a partial solution, but it might meet your needs. The problem is that \acsfont gets passed an argument that has lots of stuff including hypertext linking commands etc. Applying case-changing commands to these extra bits causes problems. My partial solution is to change the case of the text before passing the text to \ac. You could do this as follows:

\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage{acronym}
\usepackage[pdfspacing]{classicthesis}

% This gives letterspaced smallcaps but does not convert case
\renewcommand*{\acsfont}[1]{\textls[80]{\textsc{#1}}}

\newcommand*{\myac}[1]{{%   % Note: two sets of braces to keep \tmp local
  \lowercase{\def\tmp{#1}}  % Defines \tmp to be a lowercase version of #1
  \ac{\tmp}}}               % Call original \ac

\begin{document}
Initial solutions are constructed using \myac{grasp}. \myac{GRASP}
generation is very fast.

\section*{Acronyms}

\begin{acronym}
  % You could also wrap \acro similarly so you could use \myacro{GRASP}
  \acro{grasp}{Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure}
\end{acronym}

\end{document}

Sample typeset with acronym package.

A couple of comments:

You must wrap all of the commands you want to use. This can get a bit tedious. (I did not wrap \acro above for example.
Be careful in defining the new commands to prevent extra whitespace. If you spaced out the \myac definition, you will need end-of-line comments to prevent this:
```
\newcommand*{\myac}[1]{%
  {%
    \lowercase{\def\tmp{#1}}
    \ac{\tmp}%
  }%
}
```
You might like to try the glossaries package which provides builtin smallcaps support and some nice features like \Gls that capitalize the first letter. It is much more comprehensive, but also more difficult to learn. Here is a minimal example. Note: I cannot get both letter-spacing and first-letter capitalization with \Gls and friends working, but you might find it useful:
```
\documentclass{scrreprt}

\usepackage[smallcaps, acronym]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries

\usepackage[pdfspacing]{classicthesis}

\newacronym{GRASP}{grasp}{Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure}

% This gives letterspaced smallcaps but breaks capitalization \Gls{}
\renewcommand*{\acronymfont}[1]{\textls[80]{\textsc{#1}}}

\begin{document}
Initial solutions are constructed using \gls{GRASP}. \Gls{GRASP}
generation is very fast.

\setglossarysection{section} % So you get a section.
\printglossaries

\end{document}
```
This uses the nice \Gls{} feature to capitalize the first letter at the start of the second sentence, but does not letter-space the acronyms in the text. The acronym in the list of acronyms is letter-spaced because the acronyms are inserted into a description environment to which classicthesis applies letter-spacing.

Here is the same example with the letter-spacing version of \acronymfont uncommented:

Notice that this breaks \Gls{} because the first-letter is now wrapped in the letter-spacing machinery. I am not yet sure how to fix this.

[Tex/LaTex] Classic thesis + Minionpro

As @NVaughan points out in the comments, you get the basic set of Minion Pro fonts with Adobe Reader, which you can download for free. Once the font is installed on your system, fontspec should be able to find it, so you could try this if LuaLaTeX is an option for you.

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[nochapters]{classicthesis}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{MinionPro}
\begin{document}
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
\end{document}

Otherwise, you could try the minionpro package, which will work with pdfTeX. There are installation instructions on the minionpro ctan page.

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