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LaTeX Cookbook

You're reading from   LaTeX Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395148
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Variety of Document Types FREE CHAPTER 2. Tuning the Text 3. Adjusting Fonts 4. Working with Images 5. Beautiful Designs 6. Designing Tables 7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies 8. Getting the Most out of the PDF 9. Creating Graphics 10. Advanced Mathematics 11. Science and Technology 12. Getting Support on the Internet Index

Creating a list of acronyms


For documents with a lot of acronyms or abbreviations, it is common to have a table showing their short forms and full forms. This allows compact writing and adds convenience for the reader.

This is different from a glossary as we don't list explanations, just the full forms.

How to do it...

We will again use the glossaries package. Since the concept of a glossary and a list of acronyms are closely related, it provides an acronym mode too, so we will now use the list that way by performing the following steps:

  1. Begin with a document class. It doesn't matter which one. Here, we will take the same class that we took in the previous recipe:

    \documentclass[parskip=half]{scrartcl}
  2. Load the glossaries package and choose the style called long3col as we did in the previous recipe. For acronym support, add the acronym option:

    \usepackage[acronym,style=long3col]{glossaries}
  3. Choose an acronym style. We take long-sc-short here, where sc stands for small caps in the short form:

    \usepackage...
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