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...