You need to set the first
key for these entries when you declare them via
\newacronym[<key-val list>]{<label>}{<abbrv>}{<long>}
Even though the first
key is described under the definition of \newglossaryentry
, \newacronym
uses \newglossaryentry
to define acronyms. Consequently, the following is taken from the glossaries
package documentation:
first
How the entry will appear in the document text on first
use with \gls
(or one of its uppercase variants). If this field is
omitted, the value of the text
key is used. Note that if you use
\glspl
, \Glspl
, \GLSpl
, \glsdisp
before using \gls
, the firstplural
value won’t be used with \gls
.
So, specifically for your case, you would probably define it this way:
\newacronym%
[first={density functional theory},...]% <key-val list>
{dft}% <label>
{DFT}% <abbrv>
{density functional theory}% <long>
The following minimal example illustrates this:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{glossaries}% http://ctan.org/pkg/glossaries
\begin{document}
\newacronym%
[first={density functional theory}]% <key-val list>
{dft}% <label>
{DFT}% <abbrv>
{density functional theory}% <long>
Blah blah blah \gls{dft}. Blah blah blah blah
\end{document}
glossaries
package by the special feature you are interested in.