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I would like to print in a defined location only the long foreign version of an acronym using acro. What I currently tried was \acf{}, but this gives me both the long translated version as well as the long original.

For clarity, if I have this:

\DeclareAcronym{ym}{ short = {YM}, long = {Ministry of the Environment}, foreign={Ympäristöministeriö / Miljöministeriet}, foreign-format = \textit, tag = org, pdfcomment = {Ministry of the Environment} }

I would like to print in a defined location only the foreign attribute of this acronym (i.e., for this acronym "Ympäristöministeriö / Miljöministeriet").

Current MWE and output:

\documentclass[12pt]{report} % --- Essential Packages --- \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[british]{babel} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage[most]{tcolorbox} \usepackage{tabularray} \UseTblrLibrary{booktabs} \usepackage[en-GB]{datetime2} \usepackage{acro} \DeclareAcronym{ym}{ short = {YM}, long = {Ministry of the Environment}, foreign={Ympäristöministeriö / Miljöministeriet}, foreign-format = \textit, tag = org, pdfcomment = {Ministry of the Environment} } \begin{document} Print here \acf{ym}. \end{document}

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  • where does Miljöministeriet come from? I don't see that in the input? Commented Nov 2 at 17:22
  • @cfr: Sorry, please see amended MWE. Commented Nov 2 at 18:46

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In order to take full advantage of acro in this regard you need to define a template, which just prints the foreign key (automatically with foreign-format)

\NewAcroTemplate{just-foreign}{\acrowrite{foreign}}

which then allows you to define multiple commands that use the template, to cover the various cases that might come up.

\NewAcroCommand\acforeign{m}{\UseAcroTemplate{just-foreign}{#1}} \NewAcroCommand\Acforeign{m}{\acroupper\UseAcroTemplate{just-foreign}{#1}} \NewAcroCommand\acforeignpl{m}{\acroplural\UseAcroTemplate{just-foreign}{#1}}

So in full

\documentclass[12pt]{report} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{acro} \NewAcroTemplate{just-foreign}{\acrowrite{foreign}} \NewAcroCommand\acforeign{m}{\UseAcroTemplate{just-foreign}{#1}} \NewAcroCommand\Acforeign{m}{\acroupper\UseAcroTemplate{just-foreign}{#1}} \NewAcroCommand\acforeignpl{m}{\acroplural\UseAcroTemplate{just-foreign}{#1}} \DeclareAcronym{ym}{ short = {YM}, long = {Ministry of the Environment}, foreign={ympäristöministeriö / Miljöministeriet}, foreign-format = \textit, pdfcomment = {Ministry of the Environment} } \begin{document} Print here \acf{ym}. Print now only foreign \acforeign{ym}. Print now only capitalised foreign \Acforeign{ym}. Print now only foreign as plural \acforeignpl{ym}. \end{document}

Print here Ministry of the Environment (ympäristöministeriö /Miljöministeriet, YM).

Print now only foreign ympäristöministeriö / Miljöministeriet.

Print now only capitalised foreign Ympäristöministeriö / Miljöministeriet.

Print now only foreign as plural ympäristöministeriö / Miljöministeriets.

Of course, I imagine the actual plural here would need correcting by explicitly setting foreign-plural-form for the acronym.

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  • Superb, thanks a lot! Just what I was looking for... Commented Nov 5 at 13:19
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In the dire straits I was in, looking for a quick answer, I came up with the following:

\NewAcroCommand\acforeign{m}{\emph{\acrofield{#1}{foreign}}}

This gives me for:

\documentclass[12pt]{report} % --- Essential Packages --- \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[british]{babel} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage[most]{tcolorbox} \usepackage{tabularray} \UseTblrLibrary{booktabs} \usepackage[en-GB]{datetime2} \usepackage{acro} \DeclareAcronym{ym}{ short = {YM}, long = {Ministry of the Environment}, foreign={Ympäristöministeriö / Miljöministeriet}, foreign-format = \textit, tag = org, pdfcomment = {Ministry of the Environment} } \begin{document} Print here \acf{ym}. Print now only foreign \acforeign{ym}. \end{document}

The following output:

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It's not particularly nice aesthetically insofar as the code goes, especially as the foreign-style option is set, but I didn't find a way to apply that directly to the field.

I'd be happy to accept a better (more robust) answer in lieu of this one.

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