Short package for making the handling of abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms easy.
Declare your abbreviations anywhere, use everywhere – they get picked up automatically.
Features
- Automatic plurals, with optional overrides.
- Automatic 1- or 2-column sorted list of abbreviations
- Automatic links to list of abbreviations, if included.
- styling configuration
Getting started
#import "@preview/abbr:0.1.0"
#abbr.list()
#abbr.make(
("PDE", "Partial Differential Equation"),
("BC", "Boundary Condition"),
("DOF", "Degree of Freedom", "Degrees of Freedom"),
)
#abbr.pla[BC] constrain the #abbr.pla[DOF] of the #abbr.pla[PDE] they act on.\
#abbr.pla[BC] constrain the #abbr.pla[DOF] of the #abbr.pla[PDE] they act on.
#abbr.add("PC", "Personal Computer")
Your #abbr.a[PC] is the best!
API Reference
Configuration
- style
(func)
Set a callable for styling the short version in the text.
Creation
-
add
(short, long, long-plural)
Add single entry to use later.
long-plural
is optional, if not given but used, ans
is appended to create a plural. -
make
(list, of, entries)
Add multiple entries, each of the form(short, long, long-plural)
.
Listing
- list
(title)
Create an outline with all abbreviations in short and expanded form
Usage
- s
()
- short
force short form of abbreviation - l
()
- long
force long form of abbreviation - a
()
- auto
first occurence will be long form, the rest short - pls
()
- plural short
plural short form - pll
()
- plural long
plural long form - pl
()
- plural automatic
plural. first occurence long form, then short
Why yet another Abbreviations package?
This mostly exists because I started working on it before checking is somebody already made a package for it. After I saw that e.g. acrotastic
exists, I kept convincing myself a new package still makes sense for the following reasons:
- Getting to know Typst
- More automatic handling than other packages
- Ability to keep keys as [Content] instead of having to stringify everything
Especially the last part seems to lower the friction of writing for me. It seems silly, I know.