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I have decided to go down this route:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ ... d-glossary

Thanks for your help!

Is there a way to have the acronym first, then the length?

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I understand what you are saying and it is probably a good point. I have checked the formatting requirements for the document I am generating and of course they don't have any.

I have a simple MWE where I have an acronym that I reference. The first time it puts out the full name with the acronym and every subsequent time it puts out just the acronym. Well that's all find and dandy, but when it puts out the acronym list, the title of the acronym is the abbreviation. I want ...

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

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

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


\setglossarystyle{altlist}

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


This is taken from the following in glossaries.sty :


\newcommand*{\glspostdescription ...

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 ...

Turns out that I was looking at an old file again and again. Now using 2015 version of latex2e. This 'ticket' can be closed.

I have uninstalled Tex Live 2007 and installed Tex Live 2015. However, when compiling the document, I still get


This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
\write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./doc.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>


Which is showing the 2005 LaTeX2e. Where is this file ...