glossaries - vertical space

[Jens Burmeister]

Hi,
singlespace and doublespace from the setspace-package influences the output
of the glossaries package. but as you see at the example, the vertical
space - using singlespace - is quite large.

How can I reduce that space in a way, that it is same as in text, using the
setspace-commands?

Example:

\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage{setspace} % Zeilenabst�nde setzen \singlespace \onehalfspace
\doublespace
\usepackage{glossaries} % Paket f�r listings
\newglossary[slg]{symbolslist}{syi}{syg}{Verwendete Formelzeichen}
\makeglossaries %Glossar-Befehle anschalten
\renewcommand*{\glsgroupskip}{} %no extra vertical space
\begin{document}
\newglossaryentry{symb:eta}{name={eta},description={gr.
Bst.},sort=eta,type=symbolslist}
\newglossaryentry{symb:theta}{name={theta},description={noch
einer},sort=theta,type=symbolslist}
\singlespace
\printglossary[type=symbolslist,style=listdotted]
\doublespace
\printglossary[type=symbolslist,style=listdotted]
\glsaddall
\end{document}

[Nicola Talbot]

Jens Burmeister wrote:
> singlespace and doublespace from the setspace-package influences the output
> of the glossaries package. but as you see at the example, the vertical
> space - using singlespace - is quite large.

The listdotted style uses the description environment. You'll find the
same problem with the following:

\documentclass{scrreprt}

\usepackage{setspace}

\begin{document}
\singlespacing
\begin{description}
\item[] One
\item[] Two
\end{description}

\doublespacing
\begin{description}
\item[] One
\item[] Two
\end{description}
\end{document}

> How can I reduce that space in a way, that it is same as in text, using the
> setspace-commands?

You could try switching to single spacing just for the glossaries:

\renewcommand*{\glossarypreamble}{\singlespacing}

The alternative is to modify the description environment to use
different values of \itemsep or to use a glossary style that doesn't use
the description environment.

> Example:
>
> \documentclass{scrreprt}
> \usepackage{setspace} % Zeilenabst�nde setzen \singlespace \onehalfspace
> \doublespace

BTW I think it's \doublespacing for the declaration and doublespace for
the environment

Regards
Nicola Talbot
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[Jens Burmeister]

> \renewcommand*{\glossarypreamble}{\singlespacing}
The problem is that the spaces are still to large there

That one works for desc-environments:
\begin{description}
\setlength\itemsep{0pt}\setlength\parskip{0pt}
\item[test] test
\item[test2] test2
\end{description}

Putting \setlength\itemsep{0pt}\setlength\parskip{0pt} into
glossarypreamble does _not_ work but that is exactly what I want.

The compact...-environments from the paralist-package have exactly the
spaces I want.

jens

[Nicola Talbot]

Try defining your own glossary style that sets up the listing using the
required parameters. For example, the following creates a new glossary
style called 'mylistdotted' that's based on listdotted:

\newglossarystyle{mylistdotted}{%
\glossarystyle{listdotted}%
\renewenvironment{theglossary}{%
\begin{description}
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}}{%
\end{description}}%
\renewcommand*{\glsgroupskip}{}%
}

(Remember to change \printglossary so that it uses this style).

[Jens Burmeister]

Thank you for the idea, here's my solution with compactdesc:

\usepackage{paralist}
\newglossarystyle{mylistdotted}{\glossarystyle{listdotted}%
\renewenvironment{theglossary}{\begin{compactdesc}}{\end{compactdesc}}%
\renewcommand*{\glsgroupskip}{}}