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| ID | 89🔗 |
|---|---|
| Date: | 2015-06-24 11:16:02 |
| Status | Closed (Not a Bug) |
| Category | glossaries |
| Version | 4.15 |
| Summary | breaking space between long acronym and acronym |
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Description
Glossaries default style (current texlive version) allows for a line break between `Acronym (acr)` i.e.
Acronym
(acr)
This line break can fall onto a page break.
Fix: i guess replacing `\space` with `~` should work. If there are reasons against this please let me know.
MWE
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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\setlength{\textwidth}{1cm}
\newacronymstyle{long-short-nolbr}%
{%
\ifglshaslong{\glslabel}{\glsgenacfmt}{\glsgenentryfmt}%
}%
{%
\renewcommand*{\GenericAcronymFields}{description={\the\glslongtok}}%
\renewcommand*{\genacrfullformat}[2]{%
\glsentrylong{##1}##2~
(\protect\firstacronymfont{\glsentryshort{##1}})%
}%
\renewcommand*{\Genacrfullformat}[2]{%
\Glsentrylong{##1}##2~
(\protect\firstacronymfont{\glsentryshort{##1}})%
}%
\renewcommand*{\genplacrfullformat}[2]{%
\glsentrylongpl{##1}##2~
(\protect\firstacronymfont{\glsentryshortpl{##1}})%
}%
\renewcommand*{\Genplacrfullformat}[2]{%
\Glsentrylongpl{##1}##2~
(\protect\firstacronymfont{\glsentryshortpl{##1}})%
}%
\renewcommand*{\acronymentry}[1]{\acronymfont{\glsentryshort{##1}}}
\renewcommand*{\acronymsort}[2]{##1}%
\renewcommand*{\acronymfont}[1]{##1}%
\renewcommand*{\firstacronymfont}[1]{\acronymfont{##1}}%
\renewcommand*{\acrpluralsuffix}{\glspluralsuffix}%
}
\makeglossaries
\setacronymstyle{long-short-nolbr}
\setacronymstyle{long-short}
\newacronym{nfa}{NFA}{nondeterministic finite automata}
\begin{document}
\gls{nfa}
\end{document}Evaluation
This is a feature request, so I've had to close it as not a bug. (There are plenty of long abbreviations, especially technical or medical ones, where a non-breakable space is undesirable. The existing styles behave as documented so there's no bug to fix.) However, version 4.16 now has two new styles called long-sp-short and long-sp-short-desc. These will use a non-breakable space if "(short)" is less than 3em otherwise it will use a regular space. For these styles, the space is inserted using \glsacspace{label} which can be redefined as required.
Comments
3 comments.
Date: 2015-07-08 11:27:00
I did consider making the length configurable by providing a new length register, but glossaries already uses up so many resources (which has resulted in complaints) that I didn't want to add any more. It's difficult to get a good balance between providing customization and document build efficiency.
Date: 2020-03-01 20:38:00
The glossaries-extra package has made it easier to provide new features. Some of the abbreviation styles with the extension package use
\glsxtrfullsep{label}
between the long and short forms which can be configured as required.Add Comment
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Date: 2015-07-09 11:22:42
While probably not quite the place, I would like you to know that I did not just move on, after reporting this, so: Thank you very much.
Just as an idea for the future: would it make sense to have the 3em be user defineable? (Package parameter: downside only configurable for one glossary, style parameter or maybe create a command wrapper to generate this style).