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I managed to solve my problem by changing the subentries of the alttree style. Assuming the a symbol is provided and a unit is given in the user1 entry the following seems to deliver what I wanted (although I am not yet sure about multi-line descriptions).........


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Thanks for the response!
I am not using the gloss package but the glossaries package. In the documentation of the glossaries package it is mentioned that should be easy to take an existing glossaries style and modify only parts of it.....although not for me it seems..

I think I should use the sub ...

I'm using glossaries to create a number of symbol lists (one for each chapter) each containing both Greek and Latin symbols. Searching through the fora it seemed to me that using sub-entries was the way to go. Everything is working but the final output could use some styling.

Currently I am using ...