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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Paul Stanley <paulrichardstanley@gmail.com>wrote 2011/07/01 07:41:15:</FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Is there a typographic convention that the list would recommend for </FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> typesetting abbreviations and acronyms? </FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">The TUGboat class offers \acro{CTAN} (for typesetting `CTAN'). </FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I believe that it does the same as \textsmaller{CTAN} from the </FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">`relsize' package.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Actually I have adopted this recently. Again I have a problem </FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">with hyperref under pdfTeX:</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"> \pdfstringdefDisableCommands{\let\textsmaller\textrm}</FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> </FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">does not avoid the warnings about \textsmaller in section titles, </FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">but </FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"> \let\acro\textsmaller</FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> \pdfstringdefDisableCommands{\let\acro\textrm}</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">avoids warnings about \acro in section titles. Why?</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Cheers, </FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Uwe.</FONT><BR>
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