How to get glossary terms to properly typeset subscripts/superscripts?

Question

I have just begun using the glossaries package. I have created a glossary entry for the coproduct symbol as disjoint union:

\newglossaryentry{coprod}
{
    name = {\ensuremath{\coprod}},
    description = {The coproduct in the category of sets, i.e., the disjoint union},
    sort = coprod,
    symbol = {\ensuremath{\coprod}}
}

Where I put either \gls{coprod} or \glssymbol{coprod} in the body of my document, it prints the coproduct symbol correctly, but it doesn't format subscripts and superscripts (e.g. \gls{coprod}_1^r) as it would for the \coprod symbol in math mode (i.e. above and below). Instead, they're to the right, and too close together. How can I fix this?

Addendum: An example of the call to \gls{coprod} in my code looks like:

\[
[n] = \gls{coprod}_1^r \lambda_i
\]

Answer 1

I had the exact same problem and when researching found this answer immediately, yet it did not solve my problem.

What did, was this answer, also found on tex exchange.

It seems to be necessary to pass the superscripts or subscript as optional argument to the \gls{} call in the form of \gls{<name>}[_{xx}^{yy}]. Below is an example of this in action:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{glossaries}

\newglossaryentry{sym}{
    name = {\ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}},
    description = {Real numbers}
}

\makeglossaries

\begin{document}

$\gls{sym}[^3_x]$ in a text.
\begin{align}
    \gls{sym}[_t^{2\times3}]
\end{align}

\printglossaries
\end{document}

And this is the result:

Answer 2

It's hard to tell what the problem is. Trying to simulate it I was unable to recreate it.

\documentclass {article}

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{glossaries}

\newglossaryentry{coprod}
{
    name = {\ensuremath{\coprod}},
    description = {The coproduct in the category of sets, i.e., the disjoint union},
    sort = coprod,
    symbol = {\ensuremath{\coprod}}
    }

\begin{document}
    coprod in a paragraph $\coprod_{1}^{2}$
    \[
        \coprod_{1}^{2}
    \]

    gls in paragraph $\gls{coprod}_{1}^{2}$
    \[
        \gls{coprod}_{1}^{2}
    \]

\end{document}

It sounds like you are not in display style, so either you using \gls in a $$ environment, in which case the super and subscript SHOULD be on the side, or there's some other problem. In any case, try defining name = {\ensuremath{\displaystyle\coprod}},