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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, an s 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.