[Tex/LaTex] I like to change the font style in Acronym

acronyms

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{acronym}
\begin{document}

\section*{Acronyms}
\begin{acronym}[AWGN]
\acro{MRC}{Maximal Ratio Combining} 
\acro{QoS }{Quality of Service}
\acro{MIMO}{Multiple Input Multiple Output} 
\acro{RF }{Radio Frequency} 
\acro{TAS }{Transmit Antenna Selection}
\acro{VAA}{Virtual Antenna Array} 
\acro{ASER}{Average Symbol Error Rate} 
\acrodef{SC}[SC]{Selection Combining} 
\acro{CSI }{Channel State Information} 
\acro{AF  }{Amplify and Forward}
\acro{SNR}{Signal-to-Noise Ratio} 
\acro{CDF }{Cumulative Distribution Function} 
\acro{PDF }{Probability Distribution Function} 
\acro{MGF }{Moment Generating Function}
\acro{AWGN}{Additive White Gaussian Noise}
\end{acronym}

\end{document}

I like to have the font face and font size same in acronym

Best Answer

You can do it with \renewcommand*{\acsfont}[1]{\normalfont #1}. Note that there is also \acffont and \acfsfont for corresponding versions. For more details, refer to the acronym manual page 2, section 2.2.

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{acronym}
\renewcommand*{\acsfont}[1]{\normalfont #1}  %% use anything instead of \normalfont.
\begin{document}

\section*{Acronyms}
\begin{acronym}[AWGN]
\acro{MRC}{Maximal Ratio Combining}
\acro{QoS }{Quality of Service}
\acro{MIMO}{Multiple Input Multiple Output}
\acro{RF }{Radio Frequency}
\acro{TAS }{Transmit Antenna Selection}
\acro{VAA}{Virtual Antenna Array}
\acro{ASER}{Average Symbol Error Rate}
\acrodef{SC}[SC]{Selection Combining}
\acro{CSI }{Channel State Information}
\acro{AF  }{Amplify and Forward}
\acro{SNR}{Signal-to-Noise Ratio}
\acro{CDF }{Cumulative Distribution Function}
\acro{PDF }{Probability Distribution Function}
\acro{MGF }{Moment Generating Function}
\acro{AWGN}{Additive White Gaussian Noise}
\end{acronym}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Parameter to the acronym environment changes the font of the acronym column

It seems to be a precise choice by the package author. If no optional argument to acronym is specified, the list is typeset as a plain description environment. Otherwise the optional argument sets the label width and \bflabel is used to typeset the acronym.

Of course \bflabel can be redefined in the preamble; the default definition is

\def\bflabel#1{{\textbf{\textsf{#1}}\hfill}}

However the implementation is not well done, as the width is set using

\settowidth{\labelwidth}{\textbf{\textsf{#1}}}

anyway, instead of the correct

\settowidth{\labelwidth}{\bflabel{#1}}

A "more correct" implementation that uses \bflabel also without an optional argument is here:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[babel]{csquotes}

\usepackage{acronym}
\makeatletter
\renewenvironment{AC@deflist}[1]%
  {\ifAC@nolist
   \else
     \raggedright
   \begin{list}{}{\settowidth{\labelwidth}{\bflabel{#1}}%
                  \setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth}%
                  \addtolength{\leftmargin}{\labelsep}%
                  \let\makelabel\bflabel}%
   \fi}
  {\ifAC@nolist
   \else
     \end{list}%
   \fi}
\renewenvironment{acronym}[1][1]
  {%
   \providecommand*{\acro}{\AC@acro}%
   \providecommand*{\acroplural}{\AC@acroplural}%
   \long\def\acroextra##1{##1}%
   \def\@tempa{1}\def\@tempb{#1}%
   \ifx\@tempa\@tempb
     \global\expandafter\let\csname ac@des@mark\endcsname\AC@used
     \ifAC@nolist
     \else
       \begin{description}\let\makelabel\bflabel
     \fi
   \else
     \begin{AC@deflist}{#1}%
   \fi
  }
  {%
   \ifx\AC@populated\AC@used
   \else
     \ifAC@nolist
      \else
        \item[]\relax%
     \fi
   \fi
   \expandafter\ifx\csname ac@des@mark\endcsname\AC@used
     \ifAC@nolist
     \else
       \end{description}%
      \fi
   \else
      \end{AC@deflist}%
   \fi}
\makeatother

% Provide here a new definition for \bflabel if desired
%\def\bflabel#1{{\textbf{\textsf{#1}}\hfill}}


\begin{document}
\begin{acronym}[PdL]
    \acro{PD}{Democratic Party (\textit{Partito Democratico})}
    \acro{PdL}{The People of Freedom (\textit{Il Popolo della Libert√†})}
\end{acronym}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] How to change the color of the short version of the acronym in the list of acronym

The accepted answer would not work for me. Instead, the following would do the desired job of coloring the acronym's shorthands in their listing:

\AtBeginEnvironment{acronym}{%
  \renewcommand*{\aclabelfont}[1]{\textbf{\acsfont{\color{blue}#1}}}}

This command modifies the command \aclabelfont which is used to display the shorthands.

This example shows how to use the code above:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage[printonlyused]{acronym}

\AtBeginEnvironment{acronym}{%
  \renewcommand*{\aclabelfont}[1]{\textbf{\acsfont{\color{blue}#1}}}}

\begin{document}

\section{List of Acronyms}
\begin{acronym}
  \acro{ML}{Machine Learning}
  \acro{NN}{Neural Networks}
  \acro{SE}{Something Else}
\end{acronym}

\section{A Section with Acronyms}
This section uses the acronyms \ac{ML} and \ac{NN}. Notice how only the colors of the acronym shorthands in the list of acronyms changes. The acronyms' color in the text does not change.

\end{document}

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