Package glossaries - single spaced \printglossaries?

Question

I'm trying to make a single-spaced glossary using the glossaries package but it seems as though the package has a default level of spacing in between entries even in single-spaced mode for the document. I'm using the ut-thesis style, which is based on report.cls. Examples below. Double-spaced text:

\documentclass[11pt]{ut-thesis}
…
\usepackage[nonumberlist]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
…
\begin{document}
\printglossaries
…
\end{document}

Single-spaced text:

\documentclass[11pt,singlespaced]{ut-thesis}
…
\usepackage[nonumberlist]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
…
\begin{document}
\printglossaries
…
\end{document}

This is simply not single-spaced enough for my purposes. I checked the documentation for glossaries and I hope I didn't miss anything there but nothing for \printglossaries or otherwise seemed to indicate that spacing could be altered. I tried using the leading package to help my case. This is the best that I could come up with:

\documentclass[11pt,singlespaced]{ut-thesis}
…
\usepackage{leading}
\usepackage[nonumberlist]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
…
\begin{document}
\leading{10pt}
\printglossaries
…
\end{document}

It works okay and it's what I'm using right now but I'm not sure why I can't get it to be any better. Any ideas?

Also, I'm a bit new here so if someone feels like correcting my taxonomy with respect to tagging this question, please feel free.

Answer 1

Given the default glossary entry "style" isn't what you want, why not select another one via the \printglossary style options (e.g., \printglossary[style=altlist])? The manual sets out quite a few styles that might work for you.

Out of these, I expect that \printglossary[style=long] will work best. However, since this style relies on the longtable package, you'll need to be sure that glossary can access it.

Also, you might notice that the style=long option doesn't set glossary entry names in bold font as before. If you still want that, just add \renewcommand{\glsnamefont}[1]{\textbf{#1}} to your document preamble to get it back again.

Answer 2

Solution: use

\renewcommand*{\glsgroupskip}{}

Explanation: Abbreviations are bunched according to the starting letter. In your example, you can see this additional spacing is between the A-list & B-list and the B-list & C-list. This is the normal behavior of the glossaries package and is useful whenever the glossaries run to several pages. For smaller glossaries, it doesn't make a lot of sense.