Acronyms and Abbreviations finder

This project is about two things:

• A repository containing a list of acronyms for space-related purposes.
• A script that makes your life easier when searching for acronyms in documents. The script can handle all text files (latex, markdown etc..), latex files, pdf-files and docx (word) files

acrofinder: takes a text file and replaces all occurences of acronyms in the acronym list with its counterpart

just edit this file to add new acronyms:

acronymlist.csv

Installation

Prerequisits

• docx2txt

  • install under linux:

    sudo apt install docx2txt

  • windows (anaconda):

    conda config --add channels conda-forge

    conda install docx2txt

How to use

Latex

just put "acrofind" and "acrofinder.py" and into the directory with your latex files.

then do:

./acrofind

to find all acronyms in all *.tex files and replace them with \ac{...}. An acronyms.tex will also be generated as which you should include manually into your master-file like this:

\input(acronyms.tex)

In the case that you changed your latex file and added more acronyms, you can just run

./acrofind

again, to replace the newly found acronmys. Old acronyms that are already in\ac{...}-form will be peserved.

Markdown

python3 acrofinder.py <markdownfile.md>

Pdf

python3 acrofinder.py <pdffile>

Word

python3 acrofinder.py <mywordfile.docx> > acronyms.txt

will output a list of acronyms which you can copy paste

FAQ:

• python throws the error:

TODO

• substitute acronyms
• search for possible unknown acronyms (for Example Words that have more than one Capital letter)