using \lstinline withtin glossaries - sorting problem

Question

I seem to have a sorting problem using glossaries... I am not quite sure what exactly the problem is, but I cant get rid of it

\documentclass{scrreprt}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

\usepackage{listings}

\usepackage[acronym, symbols, nomain, toc, sanitizesort]{glossaries}

\makenoidxglossaries 
\newglossary*{glsentry}{Glossary}
     \newglossaryentry{hi}{         
             type=glsentry, 
             name={\lstinline|high impedance|}, 
             description={describes a logical signal state which is not to be recognized as \lstinline|high| or \lstinline|low|}}
     \newglossaryentry{an}{         
             type=glsentry, 
             name={another}, 
             description={another entry}}

\begin{document}    
\printnoidxglossary[type = glsentry]        
\section{test}  
\gls{hi} \\     
\gls{an}     
\end{document}

I could try somethings like sort=def, sort=word etc. but the 'name' auf the entry, does not occur at the right place within the glossary...if I use sort=use or sort=last it is the last entry displayed, but the name does not come up at all...

I am probably doing something wrong and its surely nothing, but I have no more ideas. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I noticed, that my minimal example is using bold itemlabels within the glossary, but my actual project does not...this is why I added an extra example, with all the related options (as far as I can assume)...but this does contain the bold "high impedance" within the glossary as well, my project does not.

\documentclass{scrreprt}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage[locale=DE]{siunitx}
\sisetup{detect-mode = false,
    detect-family=true,
    mode=math,
    %               output-decimal-marker={,},
    binary-units=true,
    group-separator={\,},group-minimum-digits=3%
}

\usepackage[acronym, symbols, nomain, toc, sanitizesort, style=index]{glossaries}
\usepackage{booktabs}   % essential for customized symbol glossary
\usepackage{tabu}   % essential for customized symbol glossary
\glsnoexpandfields
    % create customized symbols
    \newglossarystyle{symblongtabu}{
        \renewenvironment{theglossary}{
            \begin{longtabu}spread 0pt[l]{lll<{\strut}l}
            }{
        \end{longtabu}}
        \renewcommand*{\glsgroupheading}[1]{}
        \renewcommand*{\glsgroupskip}{}
        \renewcommand*{\glossaryheader}{
            \toprule
            \bfseries Formelzeichen & \bfseries Beschreibung &
            \bfseries Einheit & \bfseries Seite(n)
            \tabularnewline\midrule\endhead
            \bottomrule\endfoot}
        \renewcommand*{\glossentry}[2]{
            \glsentryitem{##1}
            % Entry number if required
            \glstarget{##1}{\glossentrysymbol{##1}} &
            \glossentrydesc{##1} &
            \glsentryuseri{##1} &
            ##2\tabularnewline}}


\makenoidxglossaries

    % symbol entries without description
\newcommand*{\nsymbol}[4]{\newglossaryentry{#1}{
        type=symbols,
        name={#2},
        description={\nopostdesc},
        symbol={\ensuremath{#3}}, 
        %               user1={#4}, 
        user1={$\si{#4}$}, 
        sort={#1}}}
\newcommand*{\nsymbold}[5]{\newglossaryentry{#1}{
        type=symbols,
        name={#2},
        description={#5},
        symbol={\ensuremath{#3}}, 
        %               user1={#4}, 
        user1={$\si{#4}$}, 
        sort={#1}}}
\defglsentryfmt[symbols]{\ifmmode
    \glssymbol{\glslabel}
    \else
    \glsgenentryfmt~\glsentrysymbol{\glslabel}
    \fi}

    \nsymbold{i}{current}{i_1}{\ampere}{current of line 1}

    \newacronym{ac}{AC}{Accounting Current}

\newglossary*{glsentry}{Glossary}
    \newglossaryentry{hi}{
        type=glsentry, name={\lstinline|high impedance|}, description={describes an signal state which is not to be recognized as \lstinline|high| or \lstinline|low|}}
    \newglossaryentry{hi2}{
        type=glsentry, name={high impedance}, description=describes an signal state which is not to be recognized as high or low}
    \newglossaryentry{an}{
        type=glsentry, name={another}, description={another entry}}


\begin{document}


\printnoidxglossary[type = acronym, title = {glos1}]
\printnoidxglossary[type = glsentry, style=index]

\printnoidxglossary[type = symbols, style = symblongtabu, title = {glos2}]

    \newpage

    \section{test}
    \gls{hi}\\
    \gls{i}\\
    \gls{ac}


\end{document}

Maybe someone got some time to waste and is able to assume what I am using wrong...

Answer 1

First you need to understand what \printnoidxglossary is trying to do. With the default style=list, it's using the description environment and putting the name inside the optional argument of \item. So test this out:

\documentclass{scrreprt}

\usepackage{listings}

\newcommand{\test}{\lstinline|high impedance|}

\begin{document}
\begin{description}
\item[\test] test.
\end{description}
\end{document}

This produces

The item label is lost, which means the same is going to happen with glossaries if you use this style. (I suspect this may have something to do with \lstinline's verbatim-like qualities.)

The index style is a reasonable approximation, so use style=index:

\documentclass{scrreprt}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

\usepackage{listings}

\usepackage[acronym, symbols, nomain, toc, sanitizesort,style=index]{glossaries}

\makenoidxglossaries 
\newglossary*{glsentry}{Glossary}
     \newglossaryentry{hi}{         
             type=glsentry, 
             name={\lstinline|high impedance|}, 
             description={describes a logical signal state which is not to be recognized as \lstinline|high| or \lstinline|low|}}
     \newglossaryentry{an}{         
             type=glsentry, 
             name={another}, 
             description={another entry}}

\begin{document}    
\printnoidxglossary[type = glsentry]        
\section{test}  
\gls{hi} \\     
\gls{an}     
\end{document}

This produces:

"high impedance" comes before "another" because the sort values are \lstinline|high impedance| and another. The first value starts with \ and the second starts with a. You're using \makenoidxglossaries which performs an ASCII sort and the character code for \ is less than the character code for a. If you want to change this ordering, you need to specify the sort value:

\newglossaryentry{hi}{
     type=glsentry,
     name={\lstinline|high impedance|},
     sort={high impedance},
     description={describes a logical signal state which is not to be   
     recognized as \lstinline|high| or \lstinline|low|}}