Only print a footnote of a acronym once per page in the footnotes.- LaTeX

Question

I want the acronym package to only print a footnote, if its not already printed on that specific page. And give the \acf{XX} the same number in the text. It should look like this:

Text
The USA¹ are country as well as the UAE², but the USA¹ are bigger.

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1 United States of America, 2 United Arabic Emirates

Next page:

The UAE¹ are still a country.

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1 United Arabic Emirates

But it looks like this:

Text
The USA¹ are country as well as the UAE², but the USA³ are bigger.

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1 United States of America, 2 United Arabic Emirates, 3 United States of America

Next page:

The UAE¹ are still a country.

___________________
1 United Arabic Emirates

My code:

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[footnote]{acronym}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{perpage}
\MakePerPage[1]{footnote} 



\begin{document}

\section*{Acronyms}
\begin{acronym}[ECU]
\acro{USA}{United States of America}
\acro{UAE}{United Arabic Emirates}
%[...]
\end{acronym}
\newpage

\section{Text}
The \acf{USA} are a country as well as the \acf{UAE}, but the \acf{USA} are bigger.
\newpage
The \acf{USA} are still a country.
\end{document}

I tried a lot but couldnt find out a Solution on my own - Maby someone here is better in LaTeX as me and could provide me some help.

Greetings Tristan.

Answer 1

When you use \acf you request a "full acronym", so you explicitly override what the package would normally do. If you use \af instead, you'll only get the footnote the first time.

As for "first time¨: the acronym package tracks whether it has spelled out the acronym already. You can reset this counter with \acresetall . This is independent of pages. In your example with the forced page break you could simply add \acresetall after \newpage . In larger documents you could add it to each \section or \chapter , or have it done automatically with the etoolbox package or look into this answer to hook it into a page break.