Cfrgtkky

I need to define a customized glossary list based of setglossarystyle{list} such that in front of each entry I get a counter:

1. symbol 1 blah-blah




2. symbol 2 blah-blah-blah

...

I assume I have to do something like this:

newglossarystyle{symbols}{%

    setglossarystyle{list}% % based on the list style

    renewcommand*{glossarypreamble}{vspace{4ex}}%

    renewcommand*{glossaryheader}{}%

}

However, this style produces list of symbols and abbreviations WITHOUT counting them and also abbreviations are in bold for some reason.

I have looked at the list of styles unsuccessfully. I haven't found a command that counts the number of symbols in the list, only commands that could the number of times the entry has been used in the text. Any help is appreciated. The whole project can be found here.

Part of it is answered in the comments. The remaining question is how to make the glossary entries not in bold.

The entrycounter package option defines a counter called glossaryentry that's incremented and displayed at the start of each top-level term in the glossary (in styles that support it).

There are some associated commands:

• 
  ifglsentrycounter ... else ... fi
  
  This conditional can be used to test if the entrycounter option was set.


• 
  theglossaryentry
  
  Governs how the counter value is displayed (like thepage, thechapter etc).


• 
  

  glsentrycounterlabel
  
  Used to format the counter if the setting is on. This is defined as:

  
  
  

  newcommand*{glsentrycounterlabel}{%
  
   ifglsentrycounter
  
     theglossaryentry.space
  
   fi
  
  }
  
  

  
  
  

  (Originally the conditional wasn't included in the command definition. It was added as part of a bug fix in v4.38 2018-05-10.)

  
  



• glsstepentry{entry-label}
  
  Used to both increment and label the counter. (The value can be referenced with glsrefentry{entry-label}.)



• 
  

  glsentryitem{entry-label}
  
  Used by the predefined styles to increment and display the counter. This is defined as:

  
  
  

  newcommand*{glsentryitem}[1]{%
  
    ifglsentrycounter
  
      glsstepentry{#1}glsentrycounterlabel
  
    else
  
      glsresetsubentrycounter
  
    fi
  
  }
  
  

  
  
  

  If you define your own custom style and you want it to support the entrycounter option you need to include glsentryitem where you want the number to appear if the setting is on.

  
  



• glsresetsubentrycounter
  
  Resets the counter back to zero.

If the entry counters are appearing in bold then that's because the particular style in use has glsentryitem inside a bold area. In the case of the default list style this is in the optional argument of item. The simplest thing to do is redefine glsentrycounterlabel to explicitly use non-bold. For example:

documentclass{article}



usepackage[entrycounter]{glossaries}



makeglossaries



loadglsentries{example-glossaries-brief}% dummy entries

glsaddall % add all entries for testing



renewcommand*{glsentrycounterlabel}{%

 ifglsentrycounter

   textmd{theglossaryentry.}space

 fi

}



begin{document}

printglossaries

end{document}