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Error using \Glsentrytext{} in section title

When using the glossaries package in a LaTeX document I occasionally want to use a glossary entry as part of section or chapter title. For example:

\section{\Glsentrytext{big}}

This however results in an error. Trying to use \protect\Glsentrytext{} does not solve the the problem. Note that using the non-capitalized version (\glsentrytext) does not produce any problems.

Does anyone know of a way to get this to work?



I use the glossaries package occasionally as way to format specific strings in a consistent way. For example \gls{big} turns into 'beam-into-gas'. Obviously I could create two glossary entries, with and without caps, to achieve this and only include one in the final glossary. That is an ugly solution though.

Solution

  • Unfortunately I don't know why this doesn't work or how to fix it but I know a workaround:

    Note: This requires a current version of the glossaries package. I tested it with version 2.07 which worked and with version 2.03 which didn't work because the user1-user6 keys didn't exist in that version.

    Workaround

    Define the entry with the following command:

    \newglossaryentry{big}{name=big,type=main,text={beam-into-gas},user1={Beam-into-gas}}

    And then use it like that:

    \section{\glsentryuseri{big}}

    If the section title is the only occurrence of the entry then you have to add the entry to the glossary manually using \glsadd{big}.


    Comment

    This workaround is similar to the idea you posted about creating two entries except that you don't have to create two entries. :-)

    However, I could imagine that the fact that \Glsentrytext doesn't work is a limitation in LaTeX which would mean that it can't be done. But this is just guessing though.

    PS: Maybe you should have posted the question on http://tex.stackexchange.com to get an answer faster.