LaTeX forum ⇒ MakeIndex, Nomenclature, Glossaries and Acronyms ⇒ Trouble changing glossaries style

[LeonardLopes]

I am having trouble removing an extra period from the altlist glossary style in the glossaries package. Basically, the glossaries package places a period at the end of the description. This is problematic if the description contains a reference (which has to go after the period). Here is a MWE:

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\documentclass{report}
 
\usepackage[nonumberlist,description]{glossaries}
 
\newglossaryentry{gls:Acoustic}
{
   name=acoustic,
   description=
     {Associated with sound, or more generally with mechanical wave propagation in a
      medium.\cite{Morfey2000}},
}
 
\setglossarystyle{altlist}
 
\makeglossaries
 
\begin{document}
 
\glsaddall
 
\printglossaries
 
\bibliographystyle{abbrv}
\bibliography{references}
 
\end{document}

and the reference.bib file

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@book{Morfey2000,
   author={C. L. Morfey},
   title={Dictionary of Acoustics},
   year=2000,
   address={Harcourt Place, 32 Jamestown Road, London NW1 7BY, UK},
   publisher = {Academic Press}
}

After running pdflatex, bibtex, makeglossaries,pdflatex,pdflatex, you get the attached, MWE.pdf. Notice the double period at the end of the glossary description. I have skimmed the glossaries documentation where they have an example of redefining the list glossary style (http://mirrors.rit.edu/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries/glossaries-user.pdf), but to be honest this might as well be written in Chinese (which I don't understand). It seems that it would be trivial to find that dot and delete it, any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Johannes_B]

Once you know how LaTeX works, solving this isue is a matter of three minutes. Locate the glossaries package code, find the style file that contains the style, take a look at the specific style and notice: There is a macro \glspostdescription. Renewing this to be empty solves your issue. I haven't checked, though, if there might be other things that now work unexpected.

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\documentclass{report}
 
\usepackage[nonumberlist,description]{glossaries}
 
\newglossaryentry{gls:Acoustic}
{
	name=acoustic,
	description=
	{Associated with sound, or more generally with mechanical wave propagation in a
		medium.~\cite{doody}
	},
}
 
\setglossarystyle{altlist}
\renewcommand{\glspostdescription}{}
 
\makeglossaries
 
\begin{document}
\glsaddall
 
\printglossaries
 
\bibliographystyle{abbrv}
\bibliography{biblatex-examples}
 
\end{document}

[LeonardLopes]

Thank you. I was reluctant to modify the glossary distribution, but in my document, I placed:

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\setglossarystyle{altlist}
 
\renewcommand*{\glspostdescription}{%
   \spacefactor\sfcode`\. 
}

This is taken from the following in glossaries.sty:

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\newcommand*{\glspostdescription}{%
   \ifglsnopostdot\else.\spacefactor\sfcode`\. \fi
}

Now, the only problem I have is the acronyms are in the abbreviated form in the glossaries....

[LeonardLopes]

I assume that I could set \glsnopostdot, but I couldn't figure out how to do that.

[Johannes_B]

Don't fiddle with space factors.

You can also add this instead of renewing any macros: \glsnopostdottrue.

[LeonardLopes]

That was it! Thanks a lot, you've ended about a day of banging my head on a wall... now for the next wall...

[nlct]

The simplest method, which no one has mentioned so far, is to use the nopostdot package option:

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\usepackage[nopostdot]{glossaries}

This setting can also be used on a per-glossary basis:

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\printglossary[nopostdot]