[Tex/LaTex] How to let glossaries display “long form (abbreviation)” in the list of acronyms

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This is a pontentially dumb question, but I fail at making glossaries print the long form accompanied by the abbreviation in the list of acronyms.

Let this be the document (should be self-contained):

\documentclass[12pt,openany,headsepline,headinclude,footexclude,bigheadings,pointlessnumbers,idxtotoc]{scrbook}

\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage[colorlinks=false,
            pdfborder={0 0 0},
            pagebackref=true
            ]{hyperref}
\usepackage[
            style=altlist,
            nomain,
            toc=true,
            acronym,
            description,
            section=chapter,
            sanitize=none
           ]{glossaries}

\newacronym[description={set of tags for use in developing hypertext documents}]{html}{html}{Hyper Text Markup Language}

\begin{document} 
\makeglossaries
Empty document that does not use \gls{html}, because \gls{html} needs contents.
\printglossaries
\end{document}

The appearance of the first and second use of the acronym are just as I want them to be, but in the list of acronyms, it currently prints

html \\ set of tags for use in developing hypertext documents.

where I would like to print

html – Hyper Text Markup Language \\ set of tags for use in developing hypertext documents.

This seems to be discussed in "Defining A Custom Acronym Style" in glossaries-user.pdf, but I don't really get the point, I guess. Or would I need redefining the style altlist or define a new style based on it respectively?

Best Answer

Use the name key to specify the appearance in the list of acronyms.

\documentclass{scrbook}

\usepackage[style=altlist,acronym]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries

\newacronym[description={set of tags for use in developing hypertext documents},%
    name={html -- Hyper Text Markup Language}]{html}{html}{Hyper Text Markup Language}

\begin{document} 

Empty document that does not use \gls{html}, because \gls{html} needs contents.

\printglossaries

\end{document}
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