Text Formatting ⇒ acronym file format

[glassia]

Hi,

I have been trying to find out how to create an acronym list in my thesis and have been reading the articles in this forum but to find that my question is too simple to ask: the acronym file I typed didn't work.
Now I simply put as

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\chapter*{Acronyms}
\begin{acronym}[CCD]
\acrodef{CCD}{charge-coupled device}
\end{acronym}

and then use

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\input{Acronyms}

in the master file.
The error I got was

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! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...

l.7 \end{acronym}

Anyone know how to fix it? Many thanks!

[localghost]

Build a complete minimal working example (MWE) that produces the error message you gave above.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[glassia]

Thanks. but I got the same error using a mwe simply consisting of only one page abstract (to make sure there is something to put in) and the acronym file (arc.tex).
Could anyone show me an example of an acronym tex file? Thanks.

[localghost]

Thanks. but I got the same error using a mwe simply consisting of only one page abstract (to make sure there is something to put in) and the acronym file (arc.tex). [...]

But that's exactly the sense of building a MWE. Reducing the occurring error to a basic structure for easy understanding what might go wrong. So, post the code of the MWE. Otherwise it is very difficult to give specific help.