acronymscapitalizationglossaries
I have a question about the list of acronyms.
I am using the glossaries package and create my acronyms using:
\newacronym{Repo}{Repo}{Repurchase Agreement}
For this example, I would like to have Repo starting with a capital letter in the List of Acronyms, but with a small letter in the text.
Kind regards
Jannik
You have to tell acronym both spellings:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{acronym}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\newif\if@in@acrolist
\AtBeginEnvironment{acronym}{\@in@acrolisttrue}
\newrobustcmd{\LU}[2]{\if@in@acrolist#1\else#2\fi}
\newcommand{\ACF}[1]{{\@in@acrolisttrue\acf{#1}}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{acronym}
\acro{SRS}{\LU{S}{s}patial \LU{R}{r}eference \LU{S}{s}ystem}
\acro{DC}{\LU{D}{d}irect \LU{C}{c}urrent}
\end{acronym}
Batteries run on \ac{DC} and \ac{SRS} are different things.
\end{document}
The macro \LU just takes the alternate forms as its arguments; the \AtBeginEnvironment instruction tells this macro that the first argument is to be used, since the conditional \if@in@acrolist returns true. In normal text the conditional returns false (note that at the end of the acronym environment the setting of the conditional will be automatically reverted, because environments form groups).
I've added a macro \ACF that acts similarly to \acf (printing the full version along with the acronym) that uses the uppercase version.
The glossaries package (and its extension glossaries-extra) provides commands to index and reference terms or abbreviations. This is done by first defining the entries and then using markup commands like \gls within the document.
Here's the modified MWE (thank you for providing one!)
\documentclass[fontsize=11pt,paper=a4]{scrbook}
\usepackage[acronym,automake]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\newacronym{ny}{NY}{New York}
\newacronym{la}{LA}{Los Angeles}
\newacronym{us}{US}{United States}
\begin{document}
\section{A}
\gls{ny} and \gls{la} are in \gls{us}.
\printglossary[type=\acronymtype,title=Abbreviations]
\end{document}
In order to make the glossary (list of abbreviations) appear. You need the following build sequence:
pdflatexmakeglossaries (a Perl script that automatically runs makeindex or xindy according to the document settings)pdflatexThe second step sometimes causes confusion, so there's an automake package option, which will use TeX's shell escape to automatically run makeindex or xindy for you.
If those steps are successful, the above produces:
on the first page and
on the last page.
Note I've moved the \newacronym definitions to the preamble. If you want them in the document use the following instead:
\documentclass[fontsize=11pt,paper=a4]{scrbook}
\usepackage[acronym,automake,docdef=restricted]{glossaries-extra}
\makeglossaries
% set the "short" style:
\setabbreviationstyle[acronym]{short}
\begin{document}
\newacronym{ny}{NY}{New York}
\newacronym{la}{LA}{Los Angeles}
\newacronym{us}{US}{United States}
\section{A}
\gls{ny} and \gls{la} are in \gls{us}.
\printglossary[type=\acronymtype,title=Abbreviations]
\end{document}
Alternatively:
\documentclass[fontsize=11pt,paper=a4]{scrbook}
\usepackage[abbreviations,automake,docdef=restricted]{glossaries-extra}
\makeglossaries
% set the "short" style:
\setabbreviationstyle{short}
\begin{document}
\newabbreviation{ny}{NY}{New York}
\newabbreviation{la}{LA}{Los Angeles}
\newabbreviation{us}{US}{United States}
\section{A}
\gls{ny} and \gls{la} are in \gls{us}.
\printabbreviations
\end{document}
Note that only those entries that have been explicitly marked with commands like \gls are added to the list.
If you get the error message:
LaTeX Error: Unknown option `automake' for package `glossaries'.
then your version of glossaries is too old. If you don't get this message and you are using automake but your list of abbreviations is still missing, check the log file for lines starting with runsystem. If it has disabled at the end of the line then the shell escape has been disabled, in which case you'll need to find a way to run makeindex or makeglossaries. Related resources:
If you're not interested in the indexing and referencing commands provided by glossaries (such as \gls), then you don't actually need glossaries. For example:
\documentclass[fontsize=11pt,paper=a4]{scrbook}
\newenvironment{abbrevlist}
{%
\chapter*{List of Abbreviations}
\newcommand\entry[2]{\item[##1] ##2}%
\begin{description}%
}
{\end{description}}
\begin{document}
\section{A}
NY and LA are in US.
\begin{abbrevlist}
\entry{LA}{Los Angeles}
\entry{NY}{New York}
\entry{US}{United States}
\end{abbrevlist}
\end{document}
This only requires one run of pdflatex and no extra applications. This produces:
Best Answer
The simplest method is to use the extension package glossaries-extra and use the category attributes
glossname(for the display of thenamefield in the glossary) and, optionally,glossdesc(for the display of thedescriptionfield in the glossary):Since
\newacronymautomatically sets thecategorytoacronym, this modification will affect any entries defined with\newacronymbut not any entries that are defined using other commands, such as\newabbreviationor\newglossaryentry(unless thecategoryis set explicitly).