[Tex/LaTex] Formatting list of acronyms

acro

I am using the acro package to define and reference acronyms in a document. This has been working fine and the list prints. However, everything in the list is double spaced and I would like to have acronyms with very long long-names be only single spaced. A sample of code I am working with is

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[letterpaper,verbose,tmargin=1.25in,bmargin=1.25in,lmargin=1.4in,rmargin=1.15in]{geometry}
\usepackage{setspace}

\usepackage{titlesec}
\titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{-18pt}{\baselineskip}
\titleformat{\chapter}{\centering\normalsize}{\thechapter.}{1em}{}

\usepackage{acro}
\acsetup{list-style=tabular, only-used=false, sort=false}
\DeclareInstance{acro-title}{empty}{sectioning}{name-format =}

\DeclareAcronym{VLA}{
    short = VLA,
    long  = This acronym is so long that the long from requires two lines to display it
}

\DeclareAcronym{EVIL}{
    short = EVIL,
    long  = Every Villain is Lemons
}

\begin{document}
\doublespacing

\chapter*{NOMENCLATURE}

\pagestyle{plain}
\printacronyms[heading = empty]

\pagebreak{}

\end{document}

And the output looks like this

I would like the VLA acronym to be single spaced, but have double spacing between the VLA and EVIL acronyms.

Best!

Best Answer

Adding

\DeclareAcroListStyle{tabular}{table}{
  table = tabular ,
  before = \singlespacing\renewcommand\arraystretch{1.655}
}

to your MWE gives

\singlespacing also adds an additional vertical skip of \baselineskip which you might want to remove:

\DeclareAcroListStyle{tabular}{table}{
  table = tabular ,
  before = \singlespacing\vspace*{-\baselineskip}\renewcommand\arraystretch{1.655}
}

1.655 is the stretch value setspace uses for double spacing when the font size is 12pt.

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[Tex/LaTex] List of acronyms in Fancy Table

In order to get an acronym list similar to the one in the picture you need at least v2.6e (2016/09/04) of acro.

You need to declare a new instance of the acro-list object and provide the template code for the new instance. Unfortunately this still requires use of some internal variables but their usage should be safe enough.

With the help of colortbl and tabu the rest is just adding the “fancy” stuff:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{acro,tabu,longtable,xcolor,colortbl}

\ExplSyntaxOn

\tl_new:N \l__acro_fancy_color_tl

% a new interface for the acro-list:
\DeclareTemplateInterface {acro-list} {fancy-table} {2}
  {
    foreign-sep : tokenlist = {~} ,
    before      : tokenlist = ,
    after       : tokenlist = ,
    color       : tokenlist = red!20
  }

% now the code for the new interface -- similar to existing ones but adding
% the `fancy' stuff:
\DeclareTemplateCode {acro-list} {fancy-table} {2}
  {
    foreign-sep = \l__acro_foreign_sep_tl ,
    before      = \l__acro_list_before_tl ,
    after       = \l__acro_list_after_tl ,
    color       = \l__acro_fancy_color_tl
  }
  {
    \AssignTemplateKeys
    \acro_activate_hyperref_support:
    \cs_set_protected:Npn \acro_print_list_entry:nnnn ##1##2##3##4
      {
        ##1 \strut &
        \cellcolor {\l__acro_fancy_color_tl} \strut ##3 ##2 ##4 \strut \\
        \strut & \\
      }
    \acro_build_list_entries:Nnn \l__acro_list_entries_tl {#1} {#2}
    \tabulinesep = 1.2pt
    \extrarowsep = 1.2pt
    \tabulinestyle { 1.2pt \l__acro_fancy_color_tl }
    \use:x
      {
        \exp_not:V \l__acro_list_before_tl
        \exp_not:n
          {
            \begin {longtabu} to \linewidth {X[1,r]|X[4]|}
              \multicolumn {1} {r} {\bfseries\itshape Abbreviation} &
              \multicolumn {1} {l} {\bfseries Explanation} \\
              \tabucline-
          }
        \exp_not:V \l__acro_list_entries_tl
        \exp_not:N \end {longtabu}
        \exp_not:V \l__acro_list_after_tl
      }
  }

% at last we need to provide at least one style using the instance:
\DeclareAcroListStyle {joe} {fancy-table} { color = blue!20 }
\ExplSyntaxOff

\acsetup{
  first-style = short ,
  list-style = joe , % we use the newly defined style
  list-short-format = \itshape
}

\DeclareAcronym{PLL}{
  short = PLL ,
  long  = Phase Locked Loop
}

\DeclareAcronym{HP}{
  short = HP ,
  long  = High Port
}

\DeclareAcronym{LP}{
  short = LP ,
  long  = Low Port
}

\renewcommand\familydefault{\sfdefault}% I assumed this from the picture

\begin{document}

\ac{HP}, \ac{PLL} and \ac{LP} are abbreviations

\printacronyms

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Some acronyms created with acro package don’t show up in the acronyms list

The problem is the singleline check done by a caption: The caption is stored in a box and measured. As your caption is longer than one line, this box is thrown away and the text is printed as is.

This has two effects: The acronym is marked at used when the box is created and so you get the short acronym in the caption in the second step. And as the box is thrown away nothing is written to the aux-file and so the entry is missing in the list.

The easy way to avoid both problems is to avoid the singleline check with e.g.

   \usepackage[singlelinecheck=false]{caption}

If you don't want this: The first problem can be avoided by adding a reset to the caption, the second by marking the acronyms again as used after the caption. This leads to the following. As you can see it works for both acronyms:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{acro}
%\usepackage[singlelinecheck=false]{caption}
\DeclareAcronym{CMS}{short = CMS, long = Compact Muon Solenoid}
\DeclareAcronym{ATLAS}{short = ATLAS, long = A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS}

\begin{document}

\ac{ATLAS} % acronym first used before the figure


\begin{figure}[htb]
  \centering
  \caption{Acronym first used here, in the figure: 
           (\acifused{CMS}{\ac{CMS}}{\ac{CMS}\acreset{CMS}}), 
           the  second one was used already 
           (\acifused{ATLAS}{\ac{ATLAS}}{\ac{ATLAS}\acreset{ATLAS}}).
           }
           \acuse{CMS}\acuse{ATLAS}
  \label{fig:label}
\end{figure}

\ac{CMS}\\ % using the acronym again, outside of the figure
\ac{ATLAS}\\
\printacronyms[name=List of acronyms]

\end{document}

Side remarks: 1. figures are float objects and not part of the normal reading flow. I would avoid to have the only extended version of an acronym in a caption. 2. The list of figures can change the output again ...

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