[Tex/LaTex] Glossaries package and hyphenated (dashed) acronym fail to break across lines

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With respect to using the glossaries package, if I have an acronym with a long hyphenated word, it often result in sentences that runs into margins. For example:

\newacronym[sort=WH]{WH}{Wh}{Wiener-Hammerstein}

results in:

Line-breakring does not occur at dashes

I have also tried

\newacronym[sort=WH]{WH}{Wh}{Wiener\-Hammerstein}

But that fails as well, it just produces WienerHammerstein.

How do I get round this problem and allow the hyphenated ord to break across the hyphen, but always write the hyphen in normal situations?

Best Answer

The issue is not related to glossaries. As soon as a word has an explicit hyphen TeX assumes it is only allowed to break there. A quick solution would be

\newacronym[sort=WH]{WH}{Wh}{Wiener-Hammer\-stein}

that is, adding allowed break points manually.

Another solution would be to use babel shorthands.

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[Tex/LaTex] Two separate acronym list using package glossaries

This is the right way.

I added \glsaddall simply to add all entries in the lists.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{glossaries}

\newglossary[nlg]{nomenc}{not}{ntn}{Nomenclature}
\newglossary[slg]{abbrev}{sot}{stn}{Abbreviations}

% Your custom styles here
% \newglossarystyle{style1}{.....}
% \newglossarystyle{style2}{.....}

\makeglossaries

\loadglsentries[nomenc]{INP-00-glossary}
\loadglsentries[abbrev]{INP-01-glossary}

\begin{document}

\glsaddall

\printglossary[style=style1,type=nomenc]
\printglossary[style=style2,type=abbrev]

\end{document}

EDIT

If you have the need to load the glossaries package with the option acronym

\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}

then you can use this workaround to load your database with acronyms: substitute the line

\loadglsentries[nomenc]{INP-00-glossary}

with

\let\oldacronymtype\acronymtype
\def\acronymtype{nomenc}
\loadglsentries[nomenc]{INP-00-glossary}
\let\acronymtype\oldacronymtype

EDIT2

To solve your issue with \gls{md}, you should define the first key, which determines how the glossary entry is printed the first time it is used (it is automatic for acronyms, but not for common glossary entries).

This means that you have to rewrite your entry as:

\newglossaryentry{md}
{
  name={MD},
  description={molecular dynamics},
  first={\glsentrydesc{md} (\glsentrytext{md})}
}