glossaries
Is there a way to have a word listed in the glossary in its acronym AND long form?
LED light-emitting diode
light-emitting diode A semiconductor light source.
I tried with two entries, but it doesn't seem right.. and is problematic with respect to the number list.
\newglossaryentry{light-emitting diode}
{
name={light-emitting diode},
description={A semiconductor light source}
}
\newacronym{led}{LED}{\gls{light-emitting diode}}
The problem is caused by the fact that internally the footnote is using \glslabel to reference the entry but the definition of this command has changed by the time the footnote is processed. The simplest thing to do is to modify the style to ensure the label is expanded first, as in the modified example below:
\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage[table, dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage[backref=page,plainpages=false,pdfpagelabels,colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[style=listgroup,acronym,toc,hyperfirst]{glossaries}
\setglossarystyle{long}
\newacronymstyle{ex-footnote}%
{%
\GlsUseAcrEntryDispStyle{footnote}%
}%
{%
\GlsUseAcrStyleDefs{footnote}%
\renewcommand*{\genacrfullformat}[2]{%
\firstacronymfont{\glsentryshort{##1}}##2%
\expandafter\footnote\expandafter{\expandafter\glsentrylong\expandafter{##1}}%
}%
\renewcommand*{\Genacrfullformat}[2]{%
\firstacronymfont{\Glsentryshort{##1}}##2%
\expandafter\footnote\expandafter{\expandafter\glsentrylong\expandafter{##1}}%
}%
\renewcommand*{\genplacrfullformat}[2]{%
\firstacronymfont{\glsentryshortpl{##1}}##2%
\expandafter\footnote\expandafter{\expandafter\glsentrylongpl\expandafter{##1}}%
}%
\renewcommand*{\Genplacrfullformat}[2]{%
\firstacronymfont{\Glsentryshortpl{##1}}##2%
\expandafter\footnote\expandafter{\expandafter\glsentrylongpl\expandafter{##1}}%
}%
}
\setacronymstyle{ex-footnote}
\makeglossaries
% arconyms
\newacronym{FPGA}{FPGA}{Field-Programmable Gate Array}
\newacronym{DD}{DD}{\glslink{displacement damage}{Displacement Damage}}
\newacronym{DDD}{DDD}{Displacement Damage Dose}
% glossary
\newglossaryentry{displacement damage}{
name = {Displacement Damage},
description = {Displacement damage description}
}
\newglossaryentry{displacement damage dose}{
name = {Displacement Damage Dose},
description = {\Gls{DD} dose description}
}
\newglossaryentry{interconnect}{
name = {Interconnect},
description = {The wiring resources in an \gls{FPGA}}
}
\begin{document}
page 1
\clearpage
\newpage
page 2\\
What does \gls{interconnect} mean?
\Gls{DDD}, \gls{displacement damage dose} and again \gls{DDD}.\\
\clearpage
\newpage
page 3
\glsaddall
\printglossary[type=\acronymtype, title=Abbreviations]
\printglossary[type=main, title=Glossary]
\end{document}
The problem is unrelated to glossaries. You get the same behaviour if you write the name manually. This is because words containing dashes are not allowed to break anywhere else than at the dashes. Search this site for hyphenating compound words and you'll find your question and answers a few times.
Since you're probably using the babel package you can for example use \babelhyphen{hard} instead of the dashes:
poly(hydroxybutyrate\babelhyphen{hard}\textit{co}\babelhyphen{hard}hydroxyvalerate)
Depending on the language of your document there are maybe shorthands defined for this already (e.g., ngerman has "= for the hard babelhyphen) or you can define one yourself:
\useshorthands*{"}
\defineshorthand{"-}{\babelhyphen{hard}}
...
poly(hydroxybutyrate"-\textit{co}"-hydroxyvalerate)
Another possibility would be to use the chemmacros package and its \iupac command which seems quite fitting for your case:
\iupac{poly(hydroxybutyrate-\textit{co}-hydroxyvalerate)}
A complete example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
% depending on the language of your document this may or may not be necessary:
\useshorthands*{"}
\defineshorthand{"-}{\babelhyphen{hard}}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\usepackage{chemmacros}
\NewChemIUPAC\co{\textit{co}}
% \iupac-commands are only defined within \iupac so we need to prevent
% glossaries from expanding its fields (this may or may not have
% unexpected effects…)
\glsnoexpandfields
\newacronym{PHBVa}{PHBV}{\iupac{poly(hydroxybutyrate-\co-hydroxyvalerate)}}
% depending on the language of your document this may or may not be necessary:
% \shorthandon{"}
\newacronym{PHBVb}{PHBV}{poly(hydroxybutyrate"-\textit{co}"-hydroxyvalerate)}
\usepackage{showframe}
\begin{document}
%
Cras tincidunt turpis ligula, ut abcdefghijkl
poly(hydroxybutyrate-\textit{co}-hydroxyvalerate)
% with \iupac
Cras tincidunt turpis ligula, ut abcdefghijkl
\iupac{poly(hydroxybutyrate-\co-hydroxyvalerate)}
% with babel
Cras tincidunt turpis ligula, ut abcdefghijkl
poly(hydroxybutyrate"-\textit{co}"-hydroxyvalerate)
% with glossaries and \iupac
Cras tincidunt turpis ligula, ut abcdefghijkl \gls{PHBVa}
% with glossaries and babel
Cras tincidunt turpis ligula, ut abcdefghijkl \gls{PHBVb}
\end{document}
Best Answer
You seem to want a combination of glossary and acronym list. How about typesetting your entry this way?