Creating a list of acronyms

For documents with many acronyms or abbreviations, a table showing their short form and the extended version is expected. This allows for compact writing and adds convenience for the reader.

The difference to a glossary is that we don’t list explanations, just the longer forms.

How to do it...

We will again use the glossaries package. Since the concepts of a glossary and a list of acronyms are closely related, it provides an acronym mode, too. So, we will now use it that way. Take these steps:

1. Begin with a document class. It doesn’t matter which one, so we’ll take the same as in the previous recipe:

   \documentclass[parskip=half]{scrartcl}

   Load the glossaries package and choose the long3col style, like in the previous recipe. For acronym support, add the acronym option:

   \usepackage[acronym,style=long3col]{glossaries}

2. Choose an acronym style. We take long-sc-short here, where sc stands for small caps in the short form...