Re: Managing acronyms in an Org-mode document

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

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org-ref supports acronyms and glossaries:
https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/blob/master/org-ref-glossary.el. There
is a video of it at
https://www.youtube.com/live/sebs2vSIEk4?si=XUfT4KIuCF0PxlnN. It sounds
close to what you want.

On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 5:04 AM Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <
paaguti@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Sébastien writes:
> >  Hello,
>
> Hi, answers inline
>
> > Is there a way to manage acronyms in an Org-mode document ?
>
> Currently I'm using acronyms in Documents which I handle with *TeX as my
> background processor. So, it's basically embedding the LaTeX \ac* commands
> in the org-file. But I'm thinking of a module to do this in org-native
> mode.
>
> > For example:
> >
> > 1. I write a list of acronyms and their definition inside a "List of
> >    acronyms" heading
> >
> > 2. In my document, when I simply write the acronyms in my text
> >
> > 3. When I export my Org-mode document, the first time that an acronym is
> >    written, it appear in full version and all the other times it appear
> >    in acronym version
>
> Most of what you say is already there in e.g. the acronyms package in
> LaTeX and I have an ancient attempt at this written in C which made it's
> way to the venerable latex2rtf program. It could make a nice summer
> project. I could share the notes I have taken until now with basic ideas.
>
> Best, /PA
>
> --
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>

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