[Tex/LaTex] How to combine Acronym and Glossary

Question

I'm using the glossaries package.

I have an acronym (e.g., API) that should be explained in the glossary. It should be linked to the glossary at every occurrence, but its first occurrence should be written out like this:

This is a test of Application Programming Interface (API).

And this is the second occurrence of API.

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Acronyms

API Application Programming Interface

Glossary

API An Application Programming Interface (API) is a particular set of rules and specifications that a software program can follow to access and make use of the services and resources provided by another particular software program that implements that API

How can I do that?

Answer 1

a simple example

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries

%from documentation
%\newacronym[⟨key-val list⟩]{⟨label ⟩}{⟨abbrv ⟩}{⟨long⟩}
%above is short version of this
% \newglossaryentry{⟨label ⟩}{type=\acronymtype,
% name={⟨abbrv ⟩},
% description={⟨long⟩},
% text={⟨abbrv ⟩},
% first={⟨long⟩ (⟨abbrv ⟩)},
% plural={⟨abbrv ⟩\glspluralsuffix},
% firstplural={⟨long⟩\glspluralsuffix\space (⟨abbrv ⟩\glspluralsuffix)},
% ⟨key-val list⟩}

\newacronym{cd}{CD}{compact disk}


\begin{document}
\noindent
First use \gls{cd}\\
subsequent \gls{cd}

\printglossaries

\end{document}

glossaries supports multiple nomenclatures so you can still use something like this

\newglossaryentry{tree}{name={tree},
description={trees are the better humans}}

and because in the above case the type is automatically set to 'main' it will give you a second list called 'Nomenclature'

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries

%from documentation
%\newacronym[⟨key-val list⟩]{⟨label ⟩}{⟨abbrv ⟩}{⟨long⟩}
%above is short version of this
% \newglossaryentry{⟨label ⟩}{type=\acronymtype,
% name={⟨abbrv ⟩},
% description={⟨long⟩},
% text={⟨abbrv ⟩},
% first={⟨long⟩ (⟨abbrv ⟩)},
% plural={⟨abbrv ⟩\glspluralsuffix},
% firstplural={⟨long⟩\glspluralsuffix\space (⟨abbrv ⟩\glspluralsuffix)},
% ⟨key-val list⟩}

\newacronym{cd}{CD}{compact disk}

\newglossaryentry{tree}{name={tree},
    description={trees are the better humans}}

\begin{document}
\noindent
First use \gls{cd}\\
subsequent \gls{cd}

Nomenclature \gls{tree}

\printglossaries

\end{document}

To finally get what you are after, you could use

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries

%from documentation
%\newacronym[⟨key-val list⟩]{⟨label ⟩}{⟨abbrv ⟩}{⟨long⟩}
%above is short version of this
% \newglossaryentry{⟨label ⟩}{type=\acronymtype,
% name={⟨abbrv ⟩},
% description={⟨long⟩},
% text={⟨abbrv ⟩},
% first={⟨long⟩ (⟨abbrv ⟩)},
% plural={⟨abbrv ⟩\glspluralsuffix},
% firstplural={⟨long⟩\glspluralsuffix\space (⟨abbrv ⟩\glspluralsuffix)},
% ⟨key-val list⟩}

%\newacronym{api}{API}{Application Programming Interface }

%%% The glossary entry the acronym links to   
\newglossaryentry{apig}{name={API},
    description={An Application Programming Interface (API) is a particular set
of rules and specifications that a software program can follow to access and
make use of the services and resources provided by another particular software
program that implements that API}}

%%% define the acronym and use the see= option
\newglossaryentry{api}{type=\acronymtype, name={API}, description={Application
Programming Interface}, first={Application
Programming Interface (API)\glsadd{apig}}, see=[Glossary:]{apig}}
\begin{document}
\noindent
First use \gls{api}\\
subsequent \gls{api}
\newpage

\printglossary[type=\acronymtype]
%%% \newpage just to demonstrate that links are correct
\newpage
\printglossary[type=main]

\end{document}