Page Layout ⇒ LaTeX: How to make acronyms automatically printet in its long form into the footnotes

[TrizZm4ster]

[Found out a bit myself - edited]
Hi,
I'm a bit lost and really hope to get some help here.
I want the following to work:

1.Get the long version of an acronym printed in the footnotes. [check]
2.Do this every time I use a acronym, but only once per page. [Once per page not working]
3.Reset Footnote numbers for every page - So every pages foot numbers start with counting with one again. [check]

I tried quite a lot without finding a solution and really hope to find someone, who is a lot better with Latex than me. The following is not close to working, but gives a minimized Code to refer to for a working example:

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\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[footnote]{acronym}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{perpage} %the perpage package
\MakePerPage[1]{footnote} %the perpage package command



\begin{document}

\section*{Acronyms}
\begin{acronym}[ECU]
\acro{USA}{United States of America}
\acro{UAE}{United Arabic Emirates}
%[...]
\end{acronym}
\newpage

\section{Text}
The \acf{USA} are a country as well as the \acf{UAE}, but the \acf{USA} are bigger.
\newpage
The \acf{USA} are still a country.
\end{document}

The output of what I need should look like this:

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Text

The USA¹ are country as well as the UAE², but the USA¹ are bigger.

___________________
1 United States of America, 2 United Arabic Emirates

Next page:

The UAE¹ are still a country.

___________________
1 United Arabic Emirates

P.S. English is only my third language and I apologize for probably made mistakes.
Thanks in advance and Greetings
Tristan

[cgnieder]

I answered the same question on TeX.sx:

The package fixfoot can be used for footnotes with the same text that are repeatedly used.

Switching from the acronym package to acro we can

• modify \DeclareAcronym to also declare a new fixed footnote;
• define a new template for the first appearance which calls said fixed footnote.

Here is an example document:

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\documentclass{article}

% for demonstration purposes only: make the page small!
\usepackage[
  paperwidth=.5\textwidth,
  paperheight=15\baselineskip,
  margin=5pt,
  bottom=1.5cm]{geometry}

\usepackage{acro}
\usepackage{fixfoot}
\usepackage{perpage}
\MakePerPage[1]{footnote}

\NewCommandCopy\DeclareAcroymCopy\DeclareAcronym
\RenewDocumentCommand\DeclareAcronym{m+m}{%
  \DeclareAcroymCopy{#1}{#2}%
  \expandafter\DeclareFixedFootnote\csname#1@fixed@foot\endcsname{\acrofield{#1}{long}}%
}

\NewAcroTemplate{fixfoot}{%
  \acrowrite{short}%
  \acroiffirstT{\csname\AcronymID @fixed@foot\endcsname}%
}

\acsetup{
  first-style=fixfoot,
  % subsequent-style=fixfoot
}

\DeclareAcronym{USA}{short=USA,long=United States of America}
\DeclareAcronym{UAE}{short=UAE,long=United Arabic Emirates}

\begin{document}

\section{Text}
The \acf{USA} are a country as well as the \acf{UAE}, but the \acf{USA} are bigger.
\newpage
The \acf{USA} are still a country.

\end{document}

Someone more familiar with the acronym package can now maybe suggest a solution with it as well.