Florian Adamsky has a very nice post on handling acronyms in LaTeX
documents. Good style dictates that the first time you use an acronym,
you should provide the full written out definition. Later instances
can just use the acronym. That’s pretty easy to do with a small
document but for larger documents where there’s a lot of editing and
restructuring, the definition may get moved so that it comes after a
use of the acronym by itself.
Fortunately, there’s an excellent \(\mathrm{\LaTeX}\) package that
handles all this for you and Adamsky shows you how to use it. One
problem with the package from Adamsky’s point of view is that you have
to list the acronyms and their definition at the beginning of your
document. That makes it inconvenient to add a new acronym where you’re
in the middle of the document. To solve that problem, Adamsky wrote a
bit of Elisp that lets you add a new acronym on the fly without losing
your position in the text.
If you write in \(\mathrm{\LaTeX}\), you should check out the acronym
package. It probably won’t make a huge difference in your workflow but
will help remove one annoyance. You will probably also want to grab
Adamsky’s code so that you can add acronyms to the table as you need
them.