Glossaries and line breaks

[Christian Praetorius]

Hi,
I am using the glossaries package to insert acronyms into my work. For
that I have to use a dotted line and some distance due to format
regulations. Unfortunately some of the acronyms have rather lengthy
"translations" which create a line break. These line breaks don't look
very nice, since the new line almost starts below the short form of
the acronym.
Is there a way to indent the text so it starts below the first line of
explanation?

Christian

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[Nicola Talbot]

Can you provide a minimal example illustrating this?

Regards
Nicola Talbot
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[Christian Praetorius]

Nicola Talbot <n.ta...@uea.ac.uk> wrote:

>Can you provide a minimal example illustrating this?

Yes:

\documentclass[b5paper]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[acronym,nonumberlist,]{glossaries} % make a separate list
of acronyms
\glossarystyle{listdotted}
\setlength{\glslistdottedwidth}{4cm}
\makeglossaries
\newacronym{Mitf}{Mitf}{Microphthalmia-associated transcription
factor}
\newacronym{short}{short}{This is only short}
\newacronym{long}{long}{This explanation is longer, so you get a line
break here}
\newacronym{superlong}{superlong}{This explanation is so long, that
it is even long than the long example}
\glsaddall
\begin{document}
\printglossaries
\end{document}

The long and superlong acronyms get a line break, which looks not
nice. I have to use a dotted line here, the width can be changed, but
I would like to have the new line aligned if possible.

Christian

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[Nicola Talbot]

Is this the kind of thing you want:

\documentclass[b5paper]{scrreprt}

\usepackage{calc}

\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[acronym,nonumberlist,]{glossaries} % make a separate list of
acronyms

\usepackage{glossary-tree}

\setlength{\glslistdottedwidth}{4cm}

\newglossarystyle{altlistdotted}%
{%
\glossarystyle{tree}%
\renewcommand{\glossaryentryfield}[5]{%
\hangindent0pt\relax
\parindent0pt\relax
\makebox[\glslistdottedwidth][l]%
{%
\glsentryitem{##1}\textbf{\glstarget{##1}{##2}}%
\unskip\leaders\hbox to 2.9mm{\hss.}\hfill\strut
}%
\parbox[t]{\linewidth-\glslistdottedwidth}{##3}\par}%
}

\glossarystyle{altlistdotted}

\makeglossaries
\newacronym{Mitf}{Mitf}{Microphthalmia-associated transcription
factor}
\newacronym{short}{short}{This is only short}
\newacronym{long}{long}{This explanation is longer, so you get a
line
break here}
\newacronym{superlong}{superlong}{This explanation is so long, that
it is even long than the long example}
\glsaddall
\begin{document}
\printglossaries
\end{document}

[Christian Praetorius]

Nicola Talbot <n.ta...@uea.ac.uk> wrote:

>Is this the kind of thing you want:

Yes, exactly. This works perfect, thanks a lot.

Christian

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