MakeIndex, Nomenclature, Glossaries and Acronyms ⇒ Capital first letter in acronym list using glossaries.sty

[OLi]

Hallo,

I created a list of acronyms using the gossaries package. After updating my MikTeX to the very last version everything works fine. The list is showing the abbreviation on the left and the corresponding explanation on the right. Now, I just want to have the first letter of the explanation capitalized but cannot figure out how to achieve this. This question was already answerred here http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... f=5&t=9966 but the solution did not work for me.

My code Looks like this

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\documentclass[10pt,twoside,headinclude,
               headings=small,fleqn,leqno,english,
               final,bibliography=totocnumbered
]{scrartcl}

\usepackage{etex}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{babelbib}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[left=2.5cm,right=2.5cm,top=3.17cm,bottom=2.22cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{indent}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{prelim2e}
\usepackage[mediumspace]{SIunits}
\usepackage[all]{xy}
\usepackage{pgf}
\usepackage{circuitikz}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[caption=false,font=footnotesize]{subfig}
\usepackage{paralist} 
\usepackage{multirow} 
\usepackage{calc} 
\usepackage{rotating} 
\usepackage{colortbl} 
\usepackage[bookmarks=true]{hyperref}

\usepackage[acronym,nonumberlist,toc,nopostdot]{glossaries}
\setglossarystyle{long}
\setacronymstyle{long-short}
\makeglossaries

\newacronym{TW}{TW}{this word}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\printglossary[type=\acronymtype]

Within the text \gls{TW} should appear in small letters. In the list of acronyms, the Long form of \acrshort{TW} should appear with a capital first letter.

\end{document}

[Johannes_B]

Welcome,
you are loading a bunch of very old packages there.

I would argue that the description is a sentence and hence should start with a capital letter, also in the input.

[OLi]

I would argue that the description is a sentence and hence should start with a capital letter, also in the input.

But then I have it with a capital letter within my text.

you are loading a bunch of very old packages there.

I did not get any error Messages. But could there be compatibility problems?

[nlct]

With the basic glossaries package, you'd need to define a new glossary style that uses \Glossentrydesc instead of \glossentrydesc.

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[acronym,nonumberlist,toc,nopostdot]{glossaries}

\newglossarystyle{longuc}%
{%
  \setglossarystyle{long}%
  \renewcommand{\glossentry}[2]{%
    \glsentryitem{##1}\glstarget{##1}{\glossentryname{##1}} &
    \Glossentrydesc{##1}\glspostdescription\space ##2\tabularnewline
  }%
}

\setglossarystyle{longuc}
\setacronymstyle{long-short}
\makeglossaries

\newacronym{TW}{TW}{this word}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\printglossary[type=\acronymtype]

Within the text \gls{TW} should appear in small letters. In the list
of acronyms, the Long form of \acrshort{TW} should appear with a
capital first letter.

\end{document}

With the extension package glossaries-extra it's easier to make these minor adjustments using the category attributes. For example:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[acronym,nonumberlist]{glossaries-extra}

\setglossarystyle{long}
\setabbreviationstyle[acronym]{long-short}
\makeglossaries

\glssetcategoryattribute{acronym}{glossdesc}{firstuc}

\newacronym{TW}{TW}{this word}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\printglossary[type=\acronymtype]

Within the text \gls{TW} should appear in small letters. In the list
of acronyms, the Long form of \acrshort{TW} should appear with a
capital first letter.

\end{document}