MakeIndex, Nomenclature, Glossaries and Acronyms ⇒ glossaries | format for first long form of glossary entry

[Aquaman]

Dear Helpers,

I would like to chance how the entry will be displayed on first use in the text. I can use \defglsdisplayfirst{\emph{#1#4}} to change the format. But I don't want to emphasise the whole entry, I would like just to emphasize the long from and the short form shout appear not emphasized in brackets. Like this:
Long term (short term).

The code so far:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{glossaries}

\newacronym{sample}{short}{long}
\makeglossaries

\defglsdisplayfirst{\emph{#1#4}}

\begin{document}
  First: \gls{sample}. Next: \gls{sample}.
  \printglossaries
\end{document}

I also tried something like this, with no success. In this case the short form is mssing at all:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[smaller]{glossaries}

\newacronym{sample}{short}{long}
\makeglossaries

\defglsdisplayfirst{\emph{#1#4}}
\renewcommand*{\firstacronymfont}[1]{\normalfont{#1}}
\renewcommand*{\acronymfont}[1]{#1}

\begin{document}
  First: \gls{sample}. Next: \gls{sample}.
  \printglossaries
\end{document}

Does anybody has an idea? Thank you very much and with best regards,
Aquaman

PS: Sorry for my bad english, it is not my native language.

[nlct]

It's easiest to define a custom style to do this:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{glossaries}

\makeglossaries

\renewcommand*{\CustomAcronymFields}{%
  name={\the\glsshorttok},% name is abbreviated form
  description={\the\glslongtok},% description is long form
  first={\noexpand\emph{\the\glslongtok}\space(\the\glsshorttok)},%
  firstplural={\noexpand\emph{\the\glslongtok\noexpand\acrpluralsuffix}\space(\the\glsshorttok)},%
  text={\the\glsshorttok},%
  plural={\the\glsshorttok\noexpand\acrpluralsuffix}%
}

\SetCustomStyle

\newacronym{sample}{short}{long}

\begin{document}

First: \gls{sample}. Next: \gls{sample}.

\printglossaries

\end{document}

Regards
Nicola Talbot

[Aquaman]

Dear Nicola,

thank you very much for your answer and your help. It works perfektly.

Best regards,
Aquaman