Acronym used with $\text{\acl{test}}$ does not appear in printacronyms about acro HOT 7 CLOSED

Original comment by Robin Schneider (Bitbucket: ypid, GitHub: ypid).

I found a workaround:

#!latex
\makeatletter%
\let\acro@patch@org@acl\acl\relax
\let\acro@patch@org@ac\ac\relax
\renewcommand{\acl}[1]{\acro@patch@org@acl{#1}\acuse{#1}\xspace}
\renewcommand{\ac}[1]{\acro@patch@org@ac{#1}\acuse{#1}\xspace}
\makeatother%

from acro.

Original comment by Robin Schneider (Bitbucket: ypid, GitHub: ypid).

To answer the question why one would use acronyms in math mode. That is a little hack I came up with to use acronyms in source code listings with the minted package and the option mathescape :)

from acro.

Original comment by Clemens Niederberger (Bitbucket: cgnieder, GitHub: cgnieder).

Interesting...

#!latex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,acro}

\DeclareAcronym{test}{short=test,long=a test entry}
\DeclareAcronym{foo}{short=foo,long=bar}

\begin{document}
\printacronyms%

text
$\text{\ac{test}}$
text
$\ac{foo}$
text

\end{document}

from acro.

Original comment by Clemens Niederberger (Bitbucket: cgnieder, GitHub: cgnieder).

Obviously \mathchoice is the bad guy here:

#!latex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{acro}

\DeclareAcronym{test}{short=test,long=a test entry}
\DeclareAcronym{foo}{short=foo,long=bar}

\newcommand\mytext[1]{\mathchoice{#1}{#1}{#1}{#1}}

\begin{document}
\printacronyms%

text
$\mytext{\ac{test}}$
text
$\ac{foo}$
text

\end{document}

from acro.

Original comment by Clemens Niederberger (Bitbucket: cgnieder, GitHub: cgnieder).

The problem with \mathchoice is that the contents of all four arguments is typeset and stored before TeX decides which of the four to use. In the case of \text this means that \ac{test} is typeset four times before actually used by TeX. By then it is marked as used as far as acro as concerned but the aux file contains no information about this: the line

#!latex

\acro@used@once{test}{1}{1}{1}

is missing. When \ac{test} is finally used the line

#!latex

\acro@used@twice{test}{1}{1}{1}

is inserted instead. I'm not sure there is much I can do about this...

from acro.

Original comment by Clemens Niederberger (Bitbucket: cgnieder, GitHub: cgnieder).

Removing version: 1.6 (automated comment)

from acro.

Original comment by Clemens Niederberger (Bitbucket: cgnieder, GitHub: cgnieder).

\mathchoice is a TeX primitive. There isn't much that can be done about the behaviour. A workaround with and care by the user is needed

from acro.